Crossword-Solution: FLORID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Florid | a. | Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. |
| Florid | a. | Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance. |
| Florid | a. | Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence. |
| Florid | a. | Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations. |
We have 65 clues for the answer “FLORID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| with a red or flushed complexion | 1 answer |
| Beet-faced | 1 answer |
| Elaborately intricate | 1 answer |
| Having a ruddy complexion | 1 answer |
| High-flown, as writing | 1 answer |
| Ornate, as writing | 1 answer |
| Ruddy-faced | 1 answer |
| Ornate, as prose | 2 answers |
| Highly embellished | 2 answers |
| Having a red complexion | 2 answers |
| Excessively ornamented | 2 answers |
| Excessively ornate | 3 answers |
| Very ornate | 3 answers |
| Rubicund | 6 answers |
| Overly ornate | 7 answers |
| Red in the face | 10 answers |
| commercialised | 10 answers |
| Red-faced | 11 answers |
| taffeta | 12 answers |
| Asymmetrical | 13 answers |
| ruddy | 14 answers |
| Rococo | 14 answers |
| shrieking | 15 answers |
| begilt | 16 answers |
| "Screaming!" | 18 answers |
| Flowery | 18 answers |
| Magniloquent | 19 answers |
| declamatory | 21 answers |
| Purple ___ | 22 answers |
| Reddish | 23 answers |
| Highfalutin | 25 answers |
| Baroque | 29 answers |
| Rosy. | 29 answers |
| painted | 37 answers |
| flamboyant | 38 answers |
| gorgeous | 41 answers |
| Gilt | 42 answers |
| Garish | 43 answers |
| ornate | 43 answers |
| with all the trimmings | 44 answers |
| fussy | 44 answers |
| Adorned | 44 answers |
| Decorated | 45 answers |
| upmarket | 46 answers |
| Embellished | 52 answers |
| Flushed | 52 answers |
| COURTLY ___ | 54 answers |
| Gaudy | 54 answers |
| Deluxe | 55 answers |
| Sumptuous | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZECME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FLORID (5)
With his florid cheek, his compact figure smartly arrayed in a bright-buttoned blue coat, his brisk and vigorous step, and his hale and hearty aspect, altogether he seemed—not young, indeed—but a kind of new contrivance of Mother Nature in the shape of man, whom age and infirmity had no business to touch.
Even on Sunday, when it veiled its more florid charms and lay comparatively empty of passage, the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest; and with its freshly painted shutters, well-polished brasses, and general cleanliness and gaiety of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye of the passenger.
Stryver, looking at him with sharp eyes, and slowly drawing a hand across his florid face: “do you know, I rather thought, at the time, that you sympathised with the golden-haired doll, and were quick to see what happened to the golden-haired doll?” “Quick to see what happened! If a girl, doll or no doll, swoons within a yard or two of a man’s nose, he can see it without a perspective-glass.
Leavenworth was a tall, expansive, bland gentleman, with a carefully brushed whisker and a spacious, fair, well-favored face, which seemed, somehow, to have more room in it than was occupied by a smile of superior benevolence, so that (with his smooth, white forehead) it bore a certain resemblance to a large parlor with a very florid carpet, but no pictures on the walls.
The house presented an imposing chocolate-colored expanse, relieved by facings and window cornices of florid sculpture, and by a couple of dusty rose trees which clambered over the balconies and the portico.
Quotes with FLORID (3)
Stephen had been put to sleep in his usual room, far from children and noise, away in that corner of the house which looked down to the orchard and the bowling-green, and in spite of his long absence it was so familiar to him that when he woke at about three he made his way to the window almost as quickly as if dawn had already broken, opened it and walked out onto the balcony. The moon had set: there was barely a star to be seen. The still air was delightfully fresh with fal…
The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporary, fix for a breaking mind, a coping strategy for a life that had become too brutally contradictory to sustain otherwise.
I am willing without further exercise in pain to open my heart. And this needs no doctrine or theology of suffering. We love apocalypses too much, and crisis ethics and florid extremism with its thrilling language. Excuse me, no. I've had all the monstrosity I want.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1992–2025).