Synonyms and Antonyms of florid
- a florid, gilded mirror that took up most of the wall
extravagant, flamboyant, spectacular, splashy
bedaubed, flashy, garish, gaudy, glitzy, loud, ostentatious, pretentious, showy, swank (or swanky), tawdry
adorned, arrayed, beautified, bedecked, decked, decorated, dressed, embellished, enriched, garnished, ornamented, trimmed
enhanced, heightened, intensified
bejeweled (or bejewelled), bossed, chased, emblazoned, embossed, embroidered, flounced, fringed, garlanded, gilded (or gilt), laced, sequined (or sequinned), wreathed
- gave a florid speech in honor of the queen's visit
aureate, flowery, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, highfalutin (also hifalutin), magnific, ornate, purple, rhetorical (also rhetoric)
- a man with a florid complexion