FLOWERY Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

flowery

adjective

ˈflau̇(-ə)r-ē

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as in rhetorical

full of fine words and fancy expressions the flowery verses that always appear on valentines

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as in floral

of or relating to flowers Mother's Day cards typically have a flowery design on the cover

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Recent Examples of flowery With their blissful harmonies and flowery, mystical lyrics, the Texas duo embodied soft rock, ushering in the genre at the dawn of the Seventies with a gentle nudge and a tip of Seals’ signature newsboy cap. —

Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2026 There’s way too much flowery language defending the importance of fun and games. —

Alexander Kaplan, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026 This was an Alysa Liu celebration in Oakland, so a parade of stiff speakers and flowery platitudes would not suffice. —

Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2026 Once Ida is revived, Buckley is rife with tics and guttural asides, switching between rat-a-tat mobster slang and Shelley’s flowery English prose like some postmodern literary Gollum. —

David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for flowery

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There has never quite been a critical or scholarly consensus about them, but Bellini, whose music is suspended somewhere between Rossini’s precise brilliance and Donizetti’s rhetorical force, can move audiences with his melodic facility.

— Arya Roshanian, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
Those include rhetorical shifts, partnerships with brokerage platforms and teaming up with companies to develop necessary infrastructure.

— Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 1 June 2026