# flowery

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈflaʊəɹi/ · frequency rank #33,654

## Definitions
1. Pertaining to or characteristic of 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.
4. Melodramatic, overexaggerated.

## Etymology
From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of floury.

## Easily confused with
- **flower** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flower-vs-flowery)
- **flowed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flowed-vs-flowery)
- **flowers** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flowers-vs-flowery)
- **flowered** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flowered-vs-flowery)

## Common misspellings (11)
`fflowery`, `fllowery`, `floewry`, `flowerry`, `floweryy`, `floweyr`, `flowrey`, `flowwery`, `flwoery`, `folwery`, `lfowery`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/flowery