Something flowery either looks, smells, or feels like flowers. You might wear flowery perfume or write a flowery poem starting with "Roses are red..." However, flowery is not a compliment when it comes to writing.
Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
Adjective S.
marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton
a.
Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
a.
Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a
flowery style.
Flowery
Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
Usage Examples
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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