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What does florid mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word florid? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy.
  2. Elaborately ornate; flowery.
  3. (of a disorder, especially mental) In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state.
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All the same, busy foyer ceramics and florid room furnishings suggest a resort ripe for refurbishment.
On the mantelpiece is a small hard-backed book full of poems about motherly love, illustrated with florid pictures of angelic families.
He was a rotund, florid, bad-tempered, red-haired man who would shout orders.
His tone and legato playing are ravishing, and his execution of the composer's florid runs and other figurations is smooth.
And when its distributor keeled, owing the publisher 70,000 smackers, well, you could smell the florid eulogies already being written.
The clinical presentation in all 7 cases was an acute abdomen with florid acute appendicitis.

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