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

• n.

  •
  • chintzy,
  • decorative,
  • busy.

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.