Adjective: florate
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more florate |
| Superlative | most florate |
Sample Sentences
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We turn to Parker's Ephemeris for the Year of Our Lord 1738. On the title page is a quaint woodcut of Mr. Parker partly encircled by a florate border. More interesting is a stamp tax impressed at the lower right hand corner of the title page. [1978, Journal of the Philosophical Research Society, volumes 38–39, page 22:]
Adjectives inflected like florate
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin flōs, flōris (“flower, blossom”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).