flowery

1. 1.

   of or relating to or suggestive of flowers

   “a flowery hat”

   “flowery wine”
2. 2.

   marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details

   “a flowery speech”

   “ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato”

   Synonymsornate

   Similarrhetorical

Questions about flowery

What does flowery mean?

flowery means "of or relating to or suggestive of flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flowery?

flowery has 3 syllables: flo-we-ry. The stress falls on "flo". In IPA it is /ˈflaʊɚi/.

What is another word for flowery?

Close synonyms include ornate. 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 flowery a common word?

flowery is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.