flowery als bijvoeglijk naamwoord: - 1
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flowery
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
1 flowery
Of or relating to or suggestive of flowers.
Pools: kwiatowy, kwiatkowy
2 flowery
Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details:
— A flowery speech.
synoniem: ornate.
Roget 577:
ornament
etc.
v.;
beautified
etc.
847;
ornate,
florid,
rich,
flowery;
euphuistic†,
euphemistic;
sonorous;
high-sounding,
big-sounding;
inflated,
swelling,
tumid;
turgid,
turgescent;
pedantic,
pompous,
stilted;
orotund;
high flown,
high flowing;
sententious,
rhetorical,
declamatory;
grandiose;
grandiloquent,
magniloquent,
altiloquent†;
sesquipedal†,
sesquipedalian;
Johnsonian,
mouthy;
bombastic;
fustian;
frothy,
flashy,
flaming.
antithetical,
alliterative;
figurative
etc.
521;
artificial
etc.
(inelegant)
579.
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Roget 847:
ornamented,
beautified
etc.
v.;
ornate,
rich,
gilt,
begilt†,
tesselated,
festooned;
champleve [Fr.],
cloisonne,
topiary.
smart,
gay,
trickly†,
flowery,
glittering;
new gilt,
new spangled;
fine as a Mayday queen,
fine as a fivepence†,
fine as a carrot fresh scraped;
pranked out,
bedight†,
well-groomed.
in full dress
etc.
(fashion)
852;
dressed to kill,
dressed to the nines,
dressed to advantage;
in Sunday best,
en grand tenue [Fr.],
en grande toilette [Fr.];
in best bib and tucker,
endimanche [Fr.].
showy,
flashy;
gaudy
etc.
(vulgar)
851;
garish,
gairish†;
gorgeous.
ornamental,
decorative;
becoming
etc.
(accordant)
23.
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Moby betekeniswoordenboek: Gongoristic, adorned, affected, allusive, ambrosial, arabesque, aromatic, artificial, aureate, balmy, baroque, befrilled, blooming, bloomy, blossoming, bombastic, busy, chichi, colored, declamatory, decorated, diffuse, efflorescent, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, embellished, embroidered, essenced, euphuistic, fancy, festooned, figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, floral, floreate, florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flowered, flowering, fragrant, frilly, fruity, fussy, garden, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-wrought, horticultural, hortulan, in bloom, in blossom, in flower, incense-breathing, inflated, inflorescent, labored, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, mannered, metaphorical, moresque, multiflorous, musky, odorate, odoriferous, odorous, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, overcharged, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overloaded, overworked, overwrought, perfumed, perfumy, picturesque, pompous, pretty-pretty, prolix, purple, radiciflorous, redolent, redundant, referential, rhizanthous, rich, rococo, savory, scented, showy, sonorous, spicy, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, swollen, thuriferous, trolatitious, tropological, uniflorous, verbose, wordy ... meer laten zien.
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