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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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Concerto movements also ended up in cantatas, often with florid parts being added to an already busy original.
And when its distributor keeled, owing the publisher 70,000 smackers, well, you could smell the florid eulogies already being written.
Reynolds painted his florid, bald, ruddy countenance many times, and for decades less distinguished portraits swung outside countless taverns.
All the same, busy foyer ceramics and florid room furnishings suggest a resort ripe for refurbishment.
He was a rotund, florid, bad-tempered, red-haired man who would shout orders.
On the mantelpiece is a small hard-backed book full of poems about motherly love, illustrated with florid pictures of angelic families.

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