flowery

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective of or relating to or suggestive of flowers
  2. adjective marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; ; -John Milton

Etymology

From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of floury.

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