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   flow·er·y

   /ˈflou(ə)rē/

   adjective

   • 1. full of, resembling, or smelling of flowers: "a flowery meadow" Similar floralflower-coveredflower-patterned
   • ▪ (of a style of speech or writing) full of elaborate or literary words and phrases: "flowery language" Similar floridflamboyanthigh-flownhigh-soundingmagniloquentgrandiloquentornatefancybaroqueorotundrhetoricaloratoricalbombasticlaboredstrainedoverwroughtelaborateoverelaborateoverblownoverripeoverdoneconvolutedturgidinflatedinformal:highfalutinpurplerare:tumidpleonasticeuphuisticaureateOssianicfustianhyperventilatedOpposite plain

   Derivatives

   • 1. floweriness noun

   Scrabble Points: 16

   • F

     4

   • L

     1

   • O

     1

   • W

     4

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

   • Y

     4

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