Difference between Showy and Florid

SHOWY vs FLORID: ADJECTIVE

Marked by or given to extravagant, often tasteless display.
Displaying brilliance and virtuosity
Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display.
(used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
Elaborately or excessively ornamented
Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.
Calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye, often in such a way that is of low quality or little merit
Superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense
Marked by ostentation but often tasteless
Marked by extravagant display
Marked by conspicuous display

Flushed with rosy color; ruddy.
Very ornate; flowery.
Healthy.
Abounding in or covered with flowers.
Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color.
Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy.
Elaborately ornate; flowery.
In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state.
Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life
Elaborately or excessively ornamented

Suggesting wealth or expense
Synonyms Gorgeous, magnificent, sumptuous, pompous, grand, flashy, glaring, garish, dressy.
Given to show or display; ostentatious.
Making a show or striking appearance; gay; brilliant; gaudy; effective.

Covered or abounding with flowers; flowery; blooming.
Bright in color; specifically, flushed with red; of a lively red color: as, a florid countenance; a florid cheek.
Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched with lively figures; highly ornate; overwrought in expression: as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
Flowery in appearance or effect; highly embellished or decorated; loaded with ornamentation: as, florid architecture; florid music.

Conspicuous, Garish, Aureate, Theatrical, Sporty, Jazzy, Fancy, Colorful, Gaudy, Pretentious, Splashy, Florid, Flamboyant, Ostentatious, Flashy

Pompous, Baroque, Bombastic, Poetic, Orotund, Melodramatic, Declamatory, Grandiloquent, Flowery, Florissant, Rococo, Aureate, Fancy, Flamboyant, Showy

Conspicuous, Garish, Aureate, Theatrical, Sporty, Jazzy, Fancy, Colorful, Gaudy, Pretentious, Splashy, Florid, Flamboyant, Ostentatious, Flashy

Mellifluous, Pompous, Baroque, Bombastic, Poetic, Orotund, Melodramatic, Declamatory, Grandiloquent, Flowery, Rococo, Aureate, Fancy, Flamboyant, Showy

The only flash of colour came from his florid and slightly sagging face.
Mike always added in his patented circular, florid lines to the drawing.
The habitually florid hue of his cheeks faded to a pale purple.
In appearance Clutterbuck was above middle height with a striking florid complexion.
Absentmindedly skimmed an article about the latest florid fashion for men.
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Soviet Union is beautifully florid, especially when it comes to politics.
Fact Includes any and all contracts required State of Florid.
Mr Carr smote his florid brow starting web based business.
If her brother was florid, now and then.