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flowery

/flou-uh-ree/US // ˈflaʊ ə ri //UK // (ˈflaʊərɪ) //

如花似玉,如花的,鲜花般的,如花似锦

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    flow·er·i·er, flow·er·i·est.

    • : covered with or having many flowers.
    • : decorated with floral designs.
    • : rhetorically ornate or precious: flowery language.
    • : resembling a flower in fragrance: a Rhine wine with a flowery aroma.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.ornate, especially referring to speech or writing

Examples

  • This explains the crumpled look of his beautiful red velvet suit paired with cowboy boots and a flowery style shirt.

  • The Daily Pic: Becca Albee imagines a world of flowery front pages.

  • Instead of just lecturing everyone in his vague flowery language, he should put some specific proposals on the table.

  • Literally and figuratively, their lives seemed to wander through flowery pleasure-paths.

  • They wound through the flowery labyrinth whose mazes were her care and delight.

  • The Arab bowed low before the bishop and Bouillon, and muttered some flowery compliments in his own tongue.

  • She was a tiny thing, in a marvellous frock and a flowery hat and a silver girdle and chatelaine.

  • None of your vales, nor your dews and your roses—and your flowery fields, and your myrtle groves.