Definition of florid

• a. - Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
• a. - Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
• a. - Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
• a. - Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.