Definition of flowery in English:

flowery

adjective ˈflaʊəriˈflaʊ(ə)ri

1Covered with flowers or having a floral design.
a flowery meadow
开满鲜花的草地。
flowery wallpaper
花卉图案墙纸。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her room was entirely pink wallpaper and flowery things that made me cringe at the very sight of them.
- Over centuries of such husbandry, Bashkirians and bees and pine forests and flowery meadows thrived.
- The beds had cast iron bedsteads and flowery covers with frilly edges.
- Groves of golden aspen, flowery meadows, ponds, and outcrops of limestone break up the dominance of the regal coniferous forest.
- I tore down the flowery wallpaper and painted the walls white.
- The walls were decorated with flowery wallpaper and an old photo of a man and his beautiful wife and two little girls.
- The walls were light blue, and the top was bordered with wallpaper of some blue and green flowery sort.
- Thoughts flitted across my mind like butterflies in a flowery meadow.
- It had a large queen-size bed, beside the far wall by a window, covered with a beautiful, flowery quilt.
- My hall bathroom is covered in a festively flowery wallpaper.
- Threads formed flowery designs on the material, shaping leaves, mountains, and other natural landscape.
- Her drawings suggest an idyllic world, where quaintly dressed children play amid flowery meadows and trim gardens.
- Wherever paint met tape, and therefore stuck to tape, both tape and paint now came away from the wall, exposing the flowery wallpaper underneath.
- Carmen's head whipped around searching for a remnant of comfort before partially hiding beneath the safety of the flowery, pink bedspread.
- She stopped to stare at every little thing from the banister to the flowery wallpaper to the family photos ascending the stairs.
- It was gold with a flowery design carved into it.
- The walls were decorated with paintings and flowery designs.
- A few minutes later I found myself crawling under the flowery, feminine covers with Ms. LaMonica, wishing for Jen to be there with me.
- It was covered in beautiful paintings of angels in large flowery meadows.
- All the walls had a flowery pattern for wallpaper.
Synonyms
floral, flower-covered, flower-patterned
1. 1.1 Smelling of flowers.
  her flowery perfume
  Example sentencesExamples
  Plus, before I packed them, I gave them a good dousing of Emeraude cologne so they'd smell extra flowery.
  So I breathed in deeply with my face still buried in the crick of her neck, and under the scent of alcohol was Theresa's flowery perfume smell.
  It smelled disgustingly of sickly sweet burning candles and flowery hand lotion.
  Kehris leaned against him smelling the flowery scent he always carried with him.
  Suddenly, I smelled a light, flowery scent coming towards me.
  Geoff smelled her flowery perfume as he led her around the floor during the dance.
  To add to his woes, the redhead's excessively flowery perfume was giving him an overwhelming urge to sneeze, right in her face.
  His nose itched as he caught a whiff of her flowery perfume.
  Its flowery, strongly aromatic character makes it ideal for this purpose.
  The perfume was a little flowery for his taste, but it was strong and would do the job.
  She was at least a head shorter than he and he could look down on the top of her head, smell the light, flowery fragrance of her hair.
  I found myself intoxicated by her scent, a flowery perfume.
  Even the lightest, most flowery perfumes contain a trace of musk.
  I could smell the flowery sent of her lotion as Krista wrapped her arms tightly around my neck.
  I recognize the flowery smell from when I kissed her at the ill-fated party.
  As much as I could remember was that Heather's perfume was sweet and flowery, and wasn't the least bit like Jamie's.
  Nora's perfume, a flowery scent, is also often smelled, and music from a piano playing, sometimes with a woman singing, may also be attributed to this lady of the house.
  A strand of her light brown hair brushed the hand he held at his chest, and he caught the faintest hint of a flowery perfume.
  He could smell her again, that sweet, flowery fragrance that he used to sink himself in just as he used to sink his fingers into her wealth of honey-brown hair.
  With the smell of warm earth and fragrant fruit and flowery herbs, this is nothing if not enticing wine, glimmering red like some medieval jewel.
2. 1.2 (of speech or writing) full of elaborate or literary words and phrases.
  （演讲，写作风格）词藻华丽的
  flowery prose
  Example sentencesExamples
  Actually I never really did panic very much - it was just a bit of flowery writing.
  No doubt, he was going to end his speech with a flowery, cliché phrase like ‘children are the future.’
  You may be able to turn my mother and sister's heads with your flowery speeches but not mine.
  Her character has to contend with flowery, overwrought speeches full of melodrama that are meant to generate some degree of humor, but which tend to fall flat.
  As she watched Brandywin step forward to make yet another flowery speech, Alex tried to ignore the two women behind her.
  Such writings could be in flowery language indeed, as in this excerpt from one spirit writing in my collection.
  Initially, there was a much longer post here, full of no doubt very embarrassing similes and attempts at flowery poetic language.
  I don't look at my leads as a chance to show off my flowery writing.
  Kabary, the flowery speeches given at all formal, ancestral occasions in the central highlands, are recognized as requiring great skill.
  His approach allowed me to see that not all food writing has to be flowery prose.
  The writing is full of exposition and flowery, stilted language that may in fact be historically accurate but in large measure prevents the characters from coming to life.
  One year an English teacher would say my writing was too flowery, another year it was not expressive enough.
  Mireeve was growing tired of the flowery speech.
  Carrey savours every flowery speech and villainous smirk in a performance that is more disciplined than one might have imagined.
  Don't give me a flowery phrase for the sight of flames crackling against the dark night sky.
  Although it was slightly scratched it appeared to be the same flowery writing as Mrs. Hornbeam's.
  Don't soil your writing with flowery language.
  He would have ridden into the fort with every hair in place, given a long flowery speech, and went off somewhere without so much as wrinkling his robes.
  When you think of a Shakespearian play, most conjure up memories of high school productions, period costumes and long and flowery speeches in an outdated and hard to understand language.
  In one case on another railway, using the flowery writing of those years, a big bonus was to be paid ‘provided the sound of a steam engine whistle was heard in the town’ by a certain date.
  Synonyms
  florid, flamboyant, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, grandiloquent, ornate, fancy, baroque, orotund, rhetorical, oratorical, bombastic, laboured, strained, overwrought, elaborate, over-elaborate, overblown, overripe, overdone, convoluted, turgid, inflated
  informal highfalutin, purple
  rare tumid, pleonastic, euphuistic, aureate, Ossianic, fustian, hyperventilated

Derivatives

floweriness

nounˈflaʊərɪnəsˈflaʊ(ə)rinəs

These wines, in my experience, are so flavoursome that the floweriness plays second fiddle to a refreshing fruity crispness.
Example sentencesExamples
- Even allowing for floweriness of language, that a man could so deeply feel his life ruined and wasted as a result chasing a mathematical proof somehow sets me back in my seat.
- We were diving into our popovers as I made some remarks about the strangeness of the model's angular, almost sickly, shoulder blades spilling over the curves and floweriness of this very feminine dress.

Rhymes

dowry, floury, loury, showery, towery

Definition of flowery in US English:

flowery

adjectiveˈflaʊ(ə)riˈflou(ə)rē

1Full of, resembling, or smelling of flowers.
开满花的，花似的，有花香味的
a flowery meadow
开满鲜花的草地。
flowery wallpaper
花卉图案墙纸。
Example sentencesExamples
- She stopped to stare at every little thing from the banister to the flowery wallpaper to the family photos ascending the stairs.
- A few minutes later I found myself crawling under the flowery, feminine covers with Ms. LaMonica, wishing for Jen to be there with me.
- Over centuries of such husbandry, Bashkirians and bees and pine forests and flowery meadows thrived.
- The beds had cast iron bedsteads and flowery covers with frilly edges.
- I tore down the flowery wallpaper and painted the walls white.
- Thoughts flitted across my mind like butterflies in a flowery meadow.
- My hall bathroom is covered in a festively flowery wallpaper.
- Her drawings suggest an idyllic world, where quaintly dressed children play amid flowery meadows and trim gardens.
- It had a large queen-size bed, beside the far wall by a window, covered with a beautiful, flowery quilt.
- The walls were decorated with paintings and flowery designs.
- Carmen's head whipped around searching for a remnant of comfort before partially hiding beneath the safety of the flowery, pink bedspread.
- Groves of golden aspen, flowery meadows, ponds, and outcrops of limestone break up the dominance of the regal coniferous forest.
- It was covered in beautiful paintings of angels in large flowery meadows.
- Wherever paint met tape, and therefore stuck to tape, both tape and paint now came away from the wall, exposing the flowery wallpaper underneath.
- All the walls had a flowery pattern for wallpaper.
- The walls were light blue, and the top was bordered with wallpaper of some blue and green flowery sort.
- Threads formed flowery designs on the material, shaping leaves, mountains, and other natural landscape.
- The walls were decorated with flowery wallpaper and an old photo of a man and his beautiful wife and two little girls.
- It was gold with a flowery design carved into it.
- Her room was entirely pink wallpaper and flowery things that made me cringe at the very sight of them.
Synonyms
floral, flower-covered, flower-patterned
1. 1.1 (of a style of speech or writing) full of elaborate or literary words and phrases.
  （演讲，写作风格）词藻华丽的
  flowery language
  词藻华丽的语言。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Actually I never really did panic very much - it was just a bit of flowery writing.
  In one case on another railway, using the flowery writing of those years, a big bonus was to be paid ‘provided the sound of a steam engine whistle was heard in the town’ by a certain date.
  Carrey savours every flowery speech and villainous smirk in a performance that is more disciplined than one might have imagined.
  He would have ridden into the fort with every hair in place, given a long flowery speech, and went off somewhere without so much as wrinkling his robes.
  Although it was slightly scratched it appeared to be the same flowery writing as Mrs. Hornbeam's.
  I don't look at my leads as a chance to show off my flowery writing.
  Kabary, the flowery speeches given at all formal, ancestral occasions in the central highlands, are recognized as requiring great skill.
  You may be able to turn my mother and sister's heads with your flowery speeches but not mine.
  No doubt, he was going to end his speech with a flowery, cliché phrase like ‘children are the future.’
  Initially, there was a much longer post here, full of no doubt very embarrassing similes and attempts at flowery poetic language.
  Mireeve was growing tired of the flowery speech.
  His approach allowed me to see that not all food writing has to be flowery prose.
  Such writings could be in flowery language indeed, as in this excerpt from one spirit writing in my collection.
  Don't give me a flowery phrase for the sight of flames crackling against the dark night sky.
  The writing is full of exposition and flowery, stilted language that may in fact be historically accurate but in large measure prevents the characters from coming to life.
  One year an English teacher would say my writing was too flowery, another year it was not expressive enough.
  As she watched Brandywin step forward to make yet another flowery speech, Alex tried to ignore the two women behind her.
  Don't soil your writing with flowery language.
  When you think of a Shakespearian play, most conjure up memories of high school productions, period costumes and long and flowery speeches in an outdated and hard to understand language.
  Her character has to contend with flowery, overwrought speeches full of melodrama that are meant to generate some degree of humor, but which tend to fall flat.
  Synonyms
  florid, flamboyant, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, grandiloquent, ornate, fancy, baroque, orotund, rhetorical, oratorical, bombastic, laboured, strained, overwrought, elaborate, over-elaborate, overblown, overripe, overdone, convoluted, turgid, inflated

单词	flowery
释义	Definition of flowery in English: flowery adjective ˈflaʊəriˈflaʊ(ə)ri 1Covered with flowers or having a floral design. a flowery meadow 开满鲜花的草地。 flowery wallpaper 花卉图案墙纸。 Example sentencesExamples Her room was entirely pink wallpaper and flowery things that made me cringe at the very sight of them. Over centuries of such husbandry, Bashkirians and bees and pine forests and flowery meadows thrived. The beds had cast iron bedsteads and flowery covers with frilly edges. Groves of golden aspen, flowery meadows, ponds, and outcrops of limestone break up the dominance of the regal coniferous forest. I tore down the flowery wallpaper and painted the walls white. The walls were decorated with flowery wallpaper and an old photo of a man and his beautiful wife and two little girls. The walls were light blue, and the top was bordered with wallpaper of some blue and green flowery sort. Thoughts flitted across my mind like butterflies in a flowery meadow. It had a large queen-size bed, beside the far wall by a window, covered with a beautiful, flowery quilt. My hall bathroom is covered in a festively flowery wallpaper. Threads formed flowery designs on the material, shaping leaves, mountains, and other natural landscape. Her drawings suggest an idyllic world, where quaintly dressed children play amid flowery meadows and trim gardens. Wherever paint met tape, and therefore stuck to tape, both tape and paint now came away from the wall, exposing the flowery wallpaper underneath. Carmen's head whipped around searching for a remnant of comfort before partially hiding beneath the safety of the flowery, pink bedspread. She stopped to stare at every little thing from the banister to the flowery wallpaper to the family photos ascending the stairs. It was gold with a flowery design carved into it. The walls were decorated with paintings and flowery designs. A few minutes later I found myself crawling under the flowery, feminine covers with Ms. LaMonica, wishing for Jen to be there with me. It was covered in beautiful paintings of angels in large flowery meadows. All the walls had a flowery pattern for wallpaper. Synonyms floral, flower-covered, flower-patterned 1.1 Smelling of flowers. her flowery perfume Example sentencesExamples Plus, before I packed them, I gave them a good dousing of Emeraude cologne so they'd smell extra flowery. So I breathed in deeply with my face still buried in the crick of her neck, and under the scent of alcohol was Theresa's flowery perfume smell. It smelled disgustingly of sickly sweet burning candles and flowery hand lotion. Kehris leaned against him smelling the flowery scent he always carried with him. Suddenly, I smelled a light, flowery scent coming towards me. Geoff smelled her flowery perfume as he led her around the floor during the dance. To add to his woes, the redhead's excessively flowery perfume was giving him an overwhelming urge to sneeze, right in her face. His nose itched as he caught a whiff of her flowery perfume. Its flowery, strongly aromatic character makes it ideal for this purpose. The perfume was a little flowery for his taste, but it was strong and would do the job. She was at least a head shorter than he and he could look down on the top of her head, smell the light, flowery fragrance of her hair. I found myself intoxicated by her scent, a flowery perfume. Even the lightest, most flowery perfumes contain a trace of musk. I could smell the flowery sent of her lotion as Krista wrapped her arms tightly around my neck. I recognize the flowery smell from when I kissed her at the ill-fated party. As much as I could remember was that Heather's perfume was sweet and flowery, and wasn't the least bit like Jamie's. Nora's perfume, a flowery scent, is also often smelled, and music from a piano playing, sometimes with a woman singing, may also be attributed to this lady of the house. A strand of her light brown hair brushed the hand he held at his chest, and he caught the faintest hint of a flowery perfume. He could smell her again, that sweet, flowery fragrance that he used to sink himself in just as he used to sink his fingers into her wealth of honey-brown hair. With the smell of warm earth and fragrant fruit and flowery herbs, this is nothing if not enticing wine, glimmering red like some medieval jewel. 1.2 (of speech or writing) full of elaborate or literary words and phrases. （演讲，写作风格）词藻华丽的 flowery prose Example sentencesExamples Actually I never really did panic very much - it was just a bit of flowery writing. No doubt, he was going to end his speech with a flowery, cliché phrase like ‘children are the future.’ You may be able to turn my mother and sister's heads with your flowery speeches but not mine. Her character has to contend with flowery, overwrought speeches full of melodrama that are meant to generate some degree of humor, but which tend to fall flat. As she watched Brandywin step forward to make yet another flowery speech, Alex tried to ignore the two women behind her. Such writings could be in flowery language indeed, as in this excerpt from one spirit writing in my collection. Initially, there was a much longer post here, full of no doubt very embarrassing similes and attempts at flowery poetic language. I don't look at my leads as a chance to show off my flowery writing. Kabary, the flowery speeches given at all formal, ancestral occasions in the central highlands, are recognized as requiring great skill. His approach allowed me to see that not all food writing has to be flowery prose. The writing is full of exposition and flowery, stilted language that may in fact be historically accurate but in large measure prevents the characters from coming to life. One year an English teacher would say my writing was too flowery, another year it was not expressive enough. Mireeve was growing tired of the flowery speech. Carrey savours every flowery speech and villainous smirk in a performance that is more disciplined than one might have imagined. Don't give me a flowery phrase for the sight of flames crackling against the dark night sky. Although it was slightly scratched it appeared to be the same flowery writing as Mrs. Hornbeam's. Don't soil your writing with flowery language. He would have ridden into the fort with every hair in place, given a long flowery speech, and went off somewhere without so much as wrinkling his robes. When you think of a Shakespearian play, most conjure up memories of high school productions, period costumes and long and flowery speeches in an outdated and hard to understand language. In one case on another railway, using the flowery writing of those years, a big bonus was to be paid ‘provided the sound of a steam engine whistle was heard in the town’ by a certain date. Synonyms florid, flamboyant, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, grandiloquent, ornate, fancy, baroque, orotund, rhetorical, oratorical, bombastic, laboured, strained, overwrought, elaborate, over-elaborate, overblown, overripe, overdone, convoluted, turgid, inflated informal highfalutin, purple rare tumid, pleonastic, euphuistic, aureate, Ossianic, fustian, hyperventilated Derivatives floweriness nounˈflaʊərɪnəsˈflaʊ(ə)rinəs These wines, in my experience, are so flavoursome that the floweriness plays second fiddle to a refreshing fruity crispness. Example sentencesExamples Even allowing for floweriness of language, that a man could so deeply feel his life ruined and wasted as a result chasing a mathematical proof somehow sets me back in my seat. We were diving into our popovers as I made some remarks about the strangeness of the model's angular, almost sickly, shoulder blades spilling over the curves and floweriness of this very feminine dress. Rhymes dowry, floury, loury, showery, towery Definition of flowery in US English: flowery adjectiveˈflaʊ(ə)riˈflou(ə)rē 1Full of, resembling, or smelling of flowers. 开满花的，花似的，有花香味的 a flowery meadow 开满鲜花的草地。 flowery wallpaper 花卉图案墙纸。 Example sentencesExamples She stopped to stare at every little thing from the banister to the flowery wallpaper to the family photos ascending the stairs. A few minutes later I found myself crawling under the flowery, feminine covers with Ms. LaMonica, wishing for Jen to be there with me. Over centuries of such husbandry, Bashkirians and bees and pine forests and flowery meadows thrived. The beds had cast iron bedsteads and flowery covers with frilly edges. I tore down the flowery wallpaper and painted the walls white. Thoughts flitted across my mind like butterflies in a flowery meadow. My hall bathroom is covered in a festively flowery wallpaper. Her drawings suggest an idyllic world, where quaintly dressed children play amid flowery meadows and trim gardens. It had a large queen-size bed, beside the far wall by a window, covered with a beautiful, flowery quilt. The walls were decorated with paintings and flowery designs. Carmen's head whipped around searching for a remnant of comfort before partially hiding beneath the safety of the flowery, pink bedspread. Groves of golden aspen, flowery meadows, ponds, and outcrops of limestone break up the dominance of the regal coniferous forest. It was covered in beautiful paintings of angels in large flowery meadows. Wherever paint met tape, and therefore stuck to tape, both tape and paint now came away from the wall, exposing the flowery wallpaper underneath. All the walls had a flowery pattern for wallpaper. The walls were light blue, and the top was bordered with wallpaper of some blue and green flowery sort. Threads formed flowery designs on the material, shaping leaves, mountains, and other natural landscape. The walls were decorated with flowery wallpaper and an old photo of a man and his beautiful wife and two little girls. It was gold with a flowery design carved into it. Her room was entirely pink wallpaper and flowery things that made me cringe at the very sight of them. Synonyms floral, flower-covered, flower-patterned 1.1 (of a style of speech or writing) full of elaborate or literary words and phrases. （演讲，写作风格）词藻华丽的 flowery language 词藻华丽的语言。 Example sentencesExamples Actually I never really did panic very much - it was just a bit of flowery writing. In one case on another railway, using the flowery writing of those years, a big bonus was to be paid ‘provided the sound of a steam engine whistle was heard in the town’ by a certain date. Carrey savours every flowery speech and villainous smirk in a performance that is more disciplined than one might have imagined. He would have ridden into the fort with every hair in place, given a long flowery speech, and went off somewhere without so much as wrinkling his robes. Although it was slightly scratched it appeared to be the same flowery writing as Mrs. Hornbeam's. I don't look at my leads as a chance to show off my flowery writing. Kabary, the flowery speeches given at all formal, ancestral occasions in the central highlands, are recognized as requiring great skill. You may be able to turn my mother and sister's heads with your flowery speeches but not mine. No doubt, he was going to end his speech with a flowery, cliché phrase like ‘children are the future.’ Initially, there was a much longer post here, full of no doubt very embarrassing similes and attempts at flowery poetic language. Mireeve was growing tired of the flowery speech. His approach allowed me to see that not all food writing has to be flowery prose. Such writings could be in flowery language indeed, as in this excerpt from one spirit writing in my collection. Don't give me a flowery phrase for the sight of flames crackling against the dark night sky. The writing is full of exposition and flowery, stilted language that may in fact be historically accurate but in large measure prevents the characters from coming to life. One year an English teacher would say my writing was too flowery, another year it was not expressive enough. As she watched Brandywin step forward to make yet another flowery speech, Alex tried to ignore the two women behind her. Don't soil your writing with flowery language. When you think of a Shakespearian play, most conjure up memories of high school productions, period costumes and long and flowery speeches in an outdated and hard to understand language. Her character has to contend with flowery, overwrought speeches full of melodrama that are meant to generate some degree of humor, but which tend to fall flat. Synonyms florid, flamboyant, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, grandiloquent, ornate, fancy, baroque, orotund, rhetorical, oratorical, bombastic, laboured, strained, overwrought, elaborate, over-elaborate, overblown, overripe, overdone, convoluted, turgid, inflated
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