floridness
51florid — /ˈflɒrəd / (say floruhd) adjective 1. highly coloured or ruddy, as complexion, cheeks, etc. 2. flowery; excessively ornate; showy: a florid prose style; florid music. 3. Architecture having many decorative features, as in baroque or rococo styles …
52euphemism — [n] nice way of saying something circumlocution, delicacy, floridness, grandiloquence, inflation, pomposity, pretense, purism; concepts 275,278 …
53florid — ► ADJECTIVE 1) having a red or flushed complexion. 2) elaborately or excessively ornate or intricate: florid prose. DERIVATIVES floridity noun floridly adverb floridness noun. ORIGIN Latin floridus, from flos flower …
54floridity — florid ► ADJECTIVE 1) having a red or flushed complexion. 2) elaborately or excessively ornate or intricate: florid prose. DERIVATIVES floridity noun floridly adverb floridness noun. ORIGIN Latin floridus, from flos flower …
55floridly — florid ► ADJECTIVE 1) having a red or flushed complexion. 2) elaborately or excessively ornate or intricate: florid prose. DERIVATIVES floridity noun floridly adverb floridness noun. ORIGIN Latin floridus, from flos flower …
56florid — [flôr′id, flär′id] adj. [L floridus, flowery < flos, a FLOWER] 1. flushed with red or pink; rosy; ruddy: said of the complexion 2. highly decorated; gaudy; showy; ornate [a florid musical passage] 3. Obs. decorated with flowers; flowery… …
57elaborateness — noun 1. marked by elaborately complex detail • Syn: ↑elaboration, ↑intricacy, ↑involution • Derivationally related forms: ↑elaborate (for: ↑elaboration), ↑elaborate …
58florid — adj. 1 ruddy; flushed; high coloured (a florid complexion). 2 (of a book, a picture, music, architecture, etc.) elaborately ornate; ostentatious; showy. 3 adorned with or as with flowers; flowery. Derivatives: floridity n. floridly adv.… …
59ornateness — noun 1. an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated • Syn: ↑elaborateness • Derivationally related forms: ↑elaborate (for: ↑elaborateness) • Hypernyms: ↑appear …
60PENSO DE LA VEGA, JOSEPH — (1650–1692), marrano writer and merchant. Joseph was born in Amsterdam. His father Isaac Penso Felix, a native of Espejo, Spain, had been imprisoned by the inquisition in Spain, and supposedly vowed to embrace Judaism openly within a year of his… …
