[ US /ˈfɫaʊɝi/ ]
[ UK /flˈa‍ʊəɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details
    a flowery speech
    ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato
  2. of or relating to or suggestive of flowers
    flowery wine
    a flowery hat
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How To Use flowery In A Sentence

  • It was a homey room, though a little too flowery for me, with prints of cabbage-size roses on the slipcovers and curtains. Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
  • The language is amusingly flowery and the overall tone one of purposeful pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
  • I watch the flowery stars which frighten me; * While cark and care mine every night foreslow. Arabian nights. English
  • Tuesday, 19 February 2008 first signs of spring - centre piece of the month february pick whatever flowers you get at the supermarket to make this little basket filled with flowers. ranunculus are my favourites and available all over the place at the moment, so i chose to put them into this flowery centrepiece. the orchid is quite fancy but you just really need one to pimp this up (and it keeps for ever!). a rose or two, some ivy and green leaves from the forest and you are all set. to get started line a basket with some foil and trim on the edges. soak some floral foam in water and place in the basket, when soaked wet (can be really, really wet - it will have to work as a vase to the flowers), eventually cut and trim the floral on the edges, so that it resembles an arch. trim flowers and green leaves and stick into pot. start doing so on the bottom of foam, working upwards until you have an even flowery centrepiece. make sure foam stays moist - adding some water from time to time. Archive 2008-02-01
  • She wears a thick flowery hairband, several clashing necklaces and a quite revolting hairy purple cardigan with batwing sleeves.
  • They were using uncommonly flowery language.
  • She bought a/some flowery print to make a summer dress.
  • Don't soil your writing with flowery language.
  • Yet it still survives as a flowery way of telling your spouse that there's more than one way of peeling spuds. Times, Sunday Times
  • 'Can you see many long weeds and nettles amongst the graves; or do they look turfy and flowery?' Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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