MEANING
1. Highly embellished in language, style, or decoration.
2. Strongly flushed or red in complexion.
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- florid prose
- florid ornament
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His florid prose slowed the urgent scene.
Florid ornament covered the frame.
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- florid
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more florid; superlative most florid where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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