flowery
adjective
uk/ˈflaʊ.ə.ri/us/ˈflaʊ.ɚ.i/floweryadjective(FLOWERS)
(alsoflowered,uk/ˈflaʊ.əd/us/ˈflaʊ.ɚd/)
decoratedwithpicturesofflowers:
饰以花卉图案的a flowerymaterial/dress饰有花卉图案的布料／连衣裙
flowerycurtains/wallpaper花窗帘／墙纸
Flowers - general words
- -petalled
- abscission
- anther
- be in blossomidiom
- bloom
- blossom
- come
- come out
- double
- female
- floral
- head
- in floweridiom
- multi-headed
- photorespiration
- photosynthesis
- photosynthesize
- pollen
- posy
- stamen
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Patterns and shapes
floweryadjective(WORDS)
disapproving
If aspeechor writingstyleis flowery, it uses too manycomplicatedwords orphrasesin anattempttosoundskilful:
（言语或文字）过分华丽的，华而不实的a flowerydescription/speech措词华丽的描写／讲话
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- distributive
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- oxymoron
- parallelism
- philological
- philology
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism