Floral vs. Florid — What's the Difference?

Of, relating to, or suggestive of a flower

Flushed with rosy color; ruddy.

Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.

Very ornate; flowery

Portraying flowers, especially in a stylized way.

(Archaic) Healthy.

A design involving flowers

(Obsolete) Abounding in or covered with flowers.

A perfume redolent of flowers

Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy.

Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.

Elaborately ornate; flowery.

Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters.

(of a disorder, especially mental) In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state.

Resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers;

(obsolete) Flourishing; in the bloom of health.

Relating to or associated with flowers;

Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.

Of or relating to the plant life in a particular region;

Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.

Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.

Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.

Elaborately or excessively ornamented;