adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 covered with flowers or decorated with pictures of flowers:
flowery meadows * flowery wallpaper
2 smelling or tasting of flowers:
flowery perfume * a flowery sparkling wine
3 (usually disapproving) (of speech or writing) too complicated; not expressed in a clear and simple way:
flowery language / prose
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for flowery is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does flowery appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — flowery appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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