Sumptuous vs Flowery - What's the difference?
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Magnificent, luxurious, splendid.
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(not comparable) Pertaining to flowers.
Decorated with flowers.
Of a speech or piece of writing: too complicated; elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; bombastic; verbose.
Sumptuous is a related term of flowery.
As adjectives the difference between sumptuous and flowery
is that sumptuous is magnificent, luxurious, splendid while flowery is (not comparable) pertaining to flowers.sumptuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
- To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
- No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal
- To make him loathe his vegetable meal;
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