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Definition of Flowery
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or suggestive of flowers. "Flowery wine"
2. Adjective. Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details. "Ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"
Definition of Flowery
1. a. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
Definition of Flowery
1. Adjective. (not comparable) Pertaining to flowers. ¹
2. Adjective. Decorated with flowers. ¹
3. Adjective. Of a speech or piece of writing: too complicated; elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; bombastic; verbose. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flowery
1. abounding in flowers [adj -ERIER, -ERIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flowery
Literary usage of Flowery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"flowery Kingdom (The). China. flowery Land (The), or 'Hwa Kwoh. ... Tho flowery
Land ' was the name of the pirates' cutter. ..."
2. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Avery Lomax (1918)
"... flowery marge the Red Chief's wigwam stood, . Before the white man's rifle
rang, loud echoing through the wood; The tommy-hawk and scalping knife ..."
3. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"She's spotless as the flow'ring thorn S. On Cessnock banksi flowery, Flow*ry.
... S. As down the bum\ V The shepherd in the flowery glen, . ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1865)
"The prisoners, he said, were all seamen on board an English ship called the “
flowery Land,” and they were now indicted for the murder of the captain. ..."
5. Chronicles of Bow Street Police-office: With an Account of the Magistrates by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1888)
"Even the name of the craft, The flowery Land, had a romantic sound, and was suited
... On the 28th of July, 1863, The flowery Land sailed from London for ..."
6. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
"Style, as to its ornamentation, has been classified as dry, plain, neat, elegant,
and flowery. A dry style discards all ornament, and aims only at being ..."
7. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... flowery mead Myriads they stood, like leaves or flowers in spring : 520 In
number like as when dense swarms of flies, In spring-time, when the milk ..."
8. The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford (1900)
"THE STORY OF THE QUEEN OF THE FLO WE RY ISLES THERE once lived a queen who ruled
over the flowery Isles, whose husband, to her extreme grief, ..."
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