flower child

1. 1.

   someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle

   Synonymshippiehippyhipster

   Broaderreformer

   Part offlower people

Questions about flower child

What does flower child mean?

flower child means "someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle".

What is another word for flower child?

Close synonyms include hippie, hippy, hipster. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flower child a common word?

flower child is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.