Crossword-Solution: FLOWERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flowery | a. | Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. |
| Flowery | a. | Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “FLOWERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | 1 answer |
| The ___ kingdom: China. | 1 answer |
| The ___ Kingdom. | 1 answer |
| Overly embellished, as speech | 1 answer |
| Effusive, as praise | 1 answer |
| floral | 2 answers |
| ELABORATE speech | 2 answers |
| euphuistic | 14 answers |
| perfumed | 14 answers |
| Magniloquent | 19 answers |
| Overblown | 20 answers |
| declamatory | 21 answers |
| AUREATE | 24 answers |
| ornate | 43 answers |
| sonorous | 48 answers |
| grandiloquent | 55 answers |
| florid | 58 answers |
| rhetorical | 63 answers |
| Elevated | 63 answers |
| swollen | 67 answers |
| Verbose | 70 answers |
| Bombastic | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FLOWERY (5)
From hence the low murmur of his pupils’ voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer’s day, like the hum of a beehive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, peradventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.
See there the olive-grove of Academe, Plato’s retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There, flowery hill, Hymettus, with the sound Of bees’ industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing; there Ilissus rowls His whispering stream.
The rough floor was spread with deep green moss, and over wall and roof grew flowery vines, filling the air with their sweet breath; while above played the clear, soft light, casting rosy shadows on the glittering drops that lay among the fragrant leaves; and beneath the vines stood Violet, casting crumbs to the downy little moles who ran fearlessly about and listened as she sang to them.
After a while the thick beech-wood gave out, and he came into a place where great oaks grew, fair and stately, as though some lord's wood-reeve had taken care that they should not grow over close together, and betwixt them the greensward was fine, unbroken, and flowery.
Immediately under this abrupt turn of the road was a grassy and flowery hollow like a sunken meadow; a sort of green velvet pocket in the long, green, trailing garments of the hills.
Quotes with FLOWERY (3)
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, onc…
If I read inspirational words, they better have some pain to back them up. My strength for moving forward has never been sparked by flowery prose calling me and Angel. Tell me how you swallowed Hell, and lived to tell the tale... the 'pain' and your transformation - will inspire me to soar. And I promise you, I will listen.
Damn, you're good,' he said and rolled onto his back. The man wasn't much for flowery speech, Alesandra thought with a smile. It didn't matter. She was arrogantly proud of herself because she'd pleased him. Perhaps she should give him a little praise too. She rolled onto her side to face him, put her hand on his chest directly over his pounded heart, and whispered. 'You're good, too. 'Tis the truth, you're the best I've ever had.' He opened his eyes to look at her. 'I'm the o…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1946–2012).