adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to or characteristic of flowers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
flowery
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈflaʊəɹi/
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General-American: /ˈflaʊəɹi/
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General-American: /ˈflaʊɹi/
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rhymes with -aʊəɹi
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rhymes with -aʊɹi
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homophone: floury (US and one UK pronunciation)
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CMU ARPABET: F L AW1 ER0 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Decorated with or abundant in flowers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: flowerful
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Of a speech or piece of writing: overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bombastic, verbose
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Melodramatic, overexaggerated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
Someone or something considered flowery.
A flowery person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, rare
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Someone or something considered flowery.
A flowery phrase or statement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, rare
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
Someone or something considered flowery.
A flowery decoration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, rare
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
Diminutive of flower.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: diminutive, form-of, informal, rare
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
A place where flowers grow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 10
of or relating to or suggestive of flowers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a flowery hat
- flowery wine
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 11
marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details-John Milton
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a flowery speech
- ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ornate
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of floury.
Etymology tree English flower Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English flowery From flower + -y (diminutive suffix).
Etymology tree English flower Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English flowery From flower + -ery.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- German: Blumen- — pertaining to flowers
- German: blumig — pertaining to flowers
- Macedonian: цве́тен (cvéten) — pertaining to flowers
- Portuguese: floral — pertaining to flowers
- Portuguese: flóreo — pertaining to flowers
- Slovene: cvéten — pertaining to flowers
- Spanish: floral — pertaining to flowers
- French: fleuri — decorated with flowers
- German: blumengeschmückt — decorated with flowers
- Greek: ανθοστόλιστος (anthostólistos) — decorated with flowers
- Ancient Greek: ἀνθηρός (anthērós) — decorated with flowers
- Latvian: puķains — decorated with flowers
- Macedonian: цве́тен (cvéten) — decorated with flowers
- Portuguese: florido — decorated with flowers
- Portuguese: flórido — decorated with flowers
- Portuguese: flóreo — decorated with flowers
- Spanish: florido — decorated with flowers
- Swedish: blommig — decorated with flowers
- Swedish: blomsterklädd — decorated with flowers
- Tagalog: mabulaklak — decorated with flowers
- Czech: květnatý — of a speech or piece of writing
- French: fleuri — of a speech or piece of writing
- Galician: frorido — of a speech or piece of writing
- German: blumig — of a speech or piece of writing
- Ancient Greek: ἀνθηρός (anthērós) — of a speech or piece of writing
- Latvian: puķains — of a speech or piece of writing
- Spanish: bombástico — of a speech or piece of writing