List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 276

SYNONYMS: ornate, florid, flamboyant, baroque, rococo.
These adjectives mean elaborately, often excessively ornamented.

Ornate implies lavishness and heaviness: a building with an ornate faҫade; ornate rhetoric.
Something florid is both ornate and flowery: The senator gave a florid speech.
Flamboyant relates to a French Gothic architectural style marked by wavy flame like forms; in a less technical sense the term suggests excessively vivid color, overwrought design, or striking audacity or verve: flamboyant red hair; flamboyant handwriting.
Baroque applies to a European artistic style marked by ornate scrolls and curves. It often connotes rich, sometimes bizarre or incongruous ornamentation: The building was coldly classical or frantically baroque.
Rococo describes the 18th-century European style that grew out of the baroque and is characterized by profuse ornamentation, such as graceful and delicate shells and foliage. It can also connote immoderate, perhaps even ridiculous complexity: an exquisite gilded rococo mirror; rococo notions of an imperial presidency