1 : of, relating to, or resembling flowers. 2 : marked by or given to rhetorical elegance flowery speeches. Other Words from flowery Synonyms More Example Sentences Learn More About flowery.

What does a flowery person mean?

plural noun. (esp during the 1960s) young people whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc implied a rejection of conventional values, and who used flowers to symbolize peace and naturalness. see also hippy1.

What does flowery mean in writing?

Flowery language occurs when elaborate words are substituted for simple ones and longer sentences are used to try to convey multiple ideas. It is an attempt to make themselves sound like they know more about a subject by using jargon terms and connecting different concepts together.