flowery

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Pertaining to or characteristic of flowers.
2. sıfat Decorated with or abundant in flowers.

   “At last she reached a flowery knoll, at whose feet ran a little burn, shaded with woodbine and wild roses; and there she sat down, burying her face in her hands.”

3. sıfat Of a speech or piece of writing: overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance.

   “My accusers, then, as I maintain, have said little or nothing that is true, but from me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language like theirs, decked out with fine words and phrases; […]”

4. sıfat Melodramatic, overexaggerated.

   “Although flowery actions are used in the plays of the 1890s, waving arms, wringing hands, and pleading with outstretched arms would be unsuitable in plays about modern life.”

5. isim A flowery person.

   “Now the revolutionaries-the Commies, Ban the Bomb floweries, Hippies, Wierdies with Beardies, Aldermaston Marchers, IRA, Anarchists- are in the driving seat.”

6. isim A flowery phrase or statement.

   “It was well done up to that point -- apart from a few sneaky attacks of the floweries.”

7. isim A flowery decoration.

   “‘’Aven’t they got no floweries ’ere?’ he asked, looking round at the row of beds. ‘This is like a bleedin’ lodgin’ ’ouse—or like the bleedin’ snotty orphans.’”

8. isim Diminutive of flower.

   “Hearken these blissful birdies how they sing, / And see the freshé floweries, how they spring!””

9. isim A place where flowers grow.

   “Poppies make very showy floweries and should be planted lightly in the spots where they are intended to be grown.”