Friday, September 30, 2022

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

flowery

 flowery (comparative flowerier or more flowery, superlative floweriest or most flowery)

    1. (not comparable) Pertaining to flowers.
    2. Decorated with or abundant in flowers.
    3.  (of a speech or piece of writing) overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance
      Synonyms: bombastic, verbose

Monday, September 26, 2022

florid

 

    florid (comparative more florid, superlative most florid)

    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.
  1. florid psychosis
  2. (obsolete) Flourishing; in the bloom of health.

Sunday, September 25, 2022

avocation

 An avocation is an activity that someone engages in as a hobby outside their main occupation. There are many examples of people whose professions were the ways that they made their livings, but for whom their activities outside their workplaces were their true passions in life.

synanthrope

 A synanthrope (from ancient Greek σύν sýn "together, with" and ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos "man") is an organism that evolve...