FLOWERED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does flowered mean? 

• FLOWERED (adjective)
  The adjective FLOWERED has 1 sense:

1. resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers

  Familiarity information: FLOWERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOWERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers

Synonyms:

floral; flowered

Context example:

an unusual floral design

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

There’s another walker there, the man with a flowered vest standing near the fireplace.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It quickened with ambition under the dreary downpour of last winter, fought the violent early spring, flowered, and lured the insects and the bees, scattered its seeds, squared itself with its duty and the world, and—

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was perched by his side, looking very smart in a flowered bonnet and grey travelling-dress, while in front of them the four splendid coal-black horses, with a flickering touch of gold upon their powerful, well-curved quarters, were pawing the dust in their eagerness to be off.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I was bridesmaid. I came into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner, and found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress—and as drunk as a monkey. She had a bottle of sauterne in one hand and a letter in the other.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)