Definition for Florid:

• Bright in colour; of a lively red; embellished with flowers or figures of rhetoric; splendid; brilliant; covered with flowers. The florid style, a highly ornamented kind of Gothic architecture, of great beauty and elaborateness.

Synonyms for Florid:

• adj.

  •baroque (adjective)
  • elaborate,
  • overdecorated,
  • grotesque,
  • rococo,
  • extravagant,
  • bizarre.
  •beautifying (adjective)
  • decorative.
  •colorful (adjective)
  • colorful,
  • chromatic,
  • loud,
  • jazzy,
  • bright,
  • garish,
  • painted,
  • flashy,
  • stained,
  • showy,
  • hued,
  • splashy,
  • shaded,
  • inky,
  • lurid,
  • full-colored,
  • gaudy,
  • colored,
  • brilliant,
  • rainbow-like,
  • vivid,
  • dyed,
  • picturesque,
  • rich,
  • High-colored,
  • tinted,
  • bright-hued,
  • intense,
  • gay,
  • spectral.
  •decorative (adjective)
  • fancy.
  •fancy (adjective)
  • decorated,
  • intricate,
  • lavish,
  • adorned,
  • gingerbread,
  • frilly,
  • fanciful,
  • elegant,
  • resplendent,
  • ostentatious.
  •figurative (adjective)
  • figurative.
  •flamboyant (adjective)
  • brilliant,
  • sporty,
  • flaming,
  • luxuriant,
  • colorful,
  • bombastic.
  •flashy (adjective)
  • cheap,
  • tasteless,
  • tawdry,
  • brazen,
  • meretricious,
  • glaring,
  • garish,
  • chintzy,
  • glitzy,
  • vulgar.
  •florid (adjective)
  • decorative,
  • high-flown,
  • ornamented,
  • figurative,
  • flamboyant,
  • magniloquent,
  • glowing,
  • aureate,
  • busy,
  • flush,
  • luscious,
  • reddened,
  • flowery,
  • pink,
  • rhetorical,
  • Euphuistic,
  • blowzy,
  • sanguine,
  • baroque,
  • ornamental,
  • rich,
  • sonorous,
  • overblown,
  • embellished,
  • High-colored,
  • garnished,
  • fussy,
  • ornate,
  • rubicund,
  • grandiloquent,
  • pretentious.
  •flowery (adjective)
  • euphemistic,
  • declamatory,
  • windy,
  • prolix,
  • purple,
  • overwrought,
  • wordy.
  •ornamental (adjective)
  • decorative.
  •ornately spoken or written (adjective)
  • elaborate,
  • highfalutin,
  • lofty,
  • bloated,
  • voluble,
  • ornate,
  • rhetorical,
  • gilded,
  • inflated,
  • grandiloquent,
  • bombastic,
  • opulent,
  • showy,
  • splashy,
  • fancy,
  • high-sounding,
  • embellished,
  • eloquent,
  • flowery,
  • rococo,
  • rich,
  • baroque,
  • ponderous,
  • flamboyant.

• n.

  •
  • chintzy,
  • decorative,
  • busy.
  •
  • flush,
  • rosy,
  • full-blooded,
  • glowing,
  • flushed,
  • blooming.
  •florid (noun)
  • showy,
  • flamboyant,
  • aureate,
  • fancy.
  •red (noun)
  • ruby,
  • cerise.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • flushed.
  •
  • rosy,
  • tasteless,
  • full-blooded.
  •
  • elegant,
  • glowing,
  • blooming.
  •lush
  • luxuriant.
  •vivid
  • bright.
  •Other relevant words:
  • crude,
  • decorated,
  • blossoming,
  • forward,
  • in flower,
  • ornamented,
  • hifalutin,
  • sesquipedalian,
  • overdone,
  • fresh,
  • hectic,
  • rubicund,
  • bright,
  • chintzy,
  • vigorous,
  • brazen,
  • grandiose,
  • orotund,
  • rude,
  • tacky,
  • sententious,
  • bloomy,
  • flaming,
  • flash,
  • gingerbreaded,
  • healthy,
  • garnished,
  • stilted,
  • razzle,
  • Euphuistic,
  • cerise,
  • flushed,
  • green,
  • gothic,
  • exotic,
  • swelling,
  • blooming,
  • resplendent,
  • Radiciflorous,
  • melodramatic,
  • age,
  • wild,
  • long-winded,
  • byzantine,
  • shoddy,
  • affected,
  • maggoty,
  • fanciful,
  • lush,
  • decoration,
  • pedantic,
  • pretty-pretty,
  • Floriated,
  • luxuriant,
  • high-flying,
  • saucy,
  • artificial,
  • honky-tonk,
  • colourful,
  • glowing,
  • reddened,
  • arabesque,
  • frilly,
  • garden,
  • blowzy,
  • magniloquent,
  • fustian,
  • hale,
  • pretentious,
  • laboured,
  • elegant,
  • disturbance,
  • ostentation,
  • weatherproof,
  • flowering,
  • reddish,
  • blood-red,
  • showiness,
  • picturesque,
  • Ossianic,
  • moresque,
  • ostentatious,
  • impudent,
  • frothy,
  • gingerbready,
  • fancy-woven,
  • venturous,
  • vulgar,
  • intricate,
  • Rhizanthous,
  • histrionic,
  • euphemistic,
  • overloaded,
  • turgid,
  • luscious,
  • overelaborate,
  • hearty,
  • embroidered,
  • decorative,
  • jazzy,
  • fantasque,
  • peaches-and-cream,
  • fantastical,
  • razzmatazz,
  • ruddy-faced,
  • gimcrack,
  • Multiflorous,
  • conspicuous,
  • gorgeous,
  • red-faced,
  • overwrought,
  • cheeky,
  • High-wrought,
  • inflorescent,
  • lavish,
  • razzle-dazzle,
  • pink,
  • luxurious,
  • Hortulan,
  • busy,
  • mouthy,
  • cherry,
  • ruddy,
  • outlandish,
  • red,
  • bender,
  • show-off,
  • well,
  • tumid,
  • brash,
  • pinkish,
  • tinselly,
  • Overelegant,
  • golden,
  • ruby,
  • brummagem,
  • rosy-cheeked,
  • Bravura,
  • unrestrained,
  • glaring,
  • in bloom,
  • fantastic,
  • Randan,
  • figured,
  • figurative,
  • burnt,
  • fussy,
  • insolent,
  • flush,
  • flowered,
  • sanguine,
  • tawdry,
  • cheap,
  • gay,
  • grotesque,
  • dressy,
  • barbaric,
  • pompous,
  • hardy,
  • overcharged,
  • fine,
  • windy,
  • whole,
  • overdecorated,
  • Big-sounding,
  • rosy,
  • Overlabored,
  • declamatory,
  • glitzy,
  • sunburned,
  • stimulus,
  • tumult,
  • raffish,
  • Overworked,
  • whimsical,
  • Florescent,
  • Beautified,
  • efflorescent,
  • aeon,
  • harsh,
  • Altiloquent,
  • Blowzed,
  • gingerbread,
  • prolix,
  • shameless,
  • chichi,
  • tatty,
  • ornament,
  • coarse,
  • bedizened,
  • bizarre,
  • Festooned,
  • labored,
  • wordy,
  • gold,
  • blushing,
  • aureate,
  • notional,
  • flashy,
  • meretricious,
  • trickery,
  • Turgescent,
  • roseate,
  • brassy,
  • overblown,
  • ornamental,
  • Uniflorous,
  • sporty,
  • fulsome,
  • floricultural,
  • embellishment,
  • brave,
  • tasteless,
  • purple,
  • sound,
  • rose-red,
  • robust,
  • overambitious,
  • trashy,
  • high-flown,
  • writer,
  • horticultural,
  • red-complexioned,
  • incarnadine,
  • loud,
  • turmoil,
  • full-blooded,
  • healthful,
  • stanch,
  • sonorous,
  • frill,
  • glamour,
  • preposterous,
  • adorned,
  • staunch,
  • extravagant,
  • over-dramatic,
  • Sesquipedal,
  • floral.

Antonyms for Florid:

• adj.

  • baroque
    unadorned.
  • colorful
    drab, uncolorful, faded, uncolored, dreary, colorless.
  • decorative
    ugly.
  • fancy
    unfancy, unornamented.
  • figurative
    real, straightforward, literal.
  • flamboyant
    moderate, unflashy, restrained, tasteful, modest, calm.
  • flashy
    subdued, unobtrusive, ungaudy, unflamboyant, simple.
  • florid
    inelaborate, undecorated, pallid, white, pale, natural, plain, unornate.
  • flowery
    unflowery, unembellished.
  • Other antonyms:
    waxen, sick, waxy, prosaic, spare, whitened, stark, anemic, conservative, modest, natural, quiet, unassuming, plainspoken, Whey-faced, peaky, tasteful, sallow, lean, understated, austere, straightforward, sickly, severe, uncovered, unaffected, muted, stripped, restrained, matter of fact, bloodless, subdued, denuded, unobtrusive, unpretentious, palish, exposed, direct, Sallowish, white, unhealthy, peaked, toned down.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    anaemic, anemic, austere, bloodless, conservative, denuded, direct, dull, lean, modest, muted, natural, palish, peaked, peaky, plainspoken, prosaic, sallow, severe, sick, sickly, spare, stark, straightforward, stripped, subdued, tasteful, unaffected, unassuming, uncovered, understated, unobtrusive, unpretentious, waxen, waxy, white, whitened, Sallowish, Whey-faced, Unpoetic, naked, white-faced, matter-of-fact, unornate, toned-down, washed out.