Dear M Anonymous,

Many adjectives can describe a flower, but as the Bard wisely said in Romeo and Juliet, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

Gaze at a real flower, meditate on it, smell it, touch it (maybe even taste it!) to stimulate your brain to think of how best to describe it.

Not a Rose •
image by Couleur/Ilona • Freiburg/D • courtesy of pixabay.com (source)

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Below are suitable adjectives to describe a flower. Go to Adjectives Starting for thousands of additional adjectives that start with different letters of the alphabet.

COLOR

• blue
• colorful
• green (usually just for the stems and leaves)
• lavender (named after the flower!)
• multi-colored
• orange
• pink
• purple
• red
• varicolored
• white
• yellow

AROMA

• aromatic
• breath-taking
• fragrant
• pungent
• smelly
• spicy
• stinky
• sweet

TEXTURE

• delicate
• prickly
• smooth (e.g., petals on a rose)

SIZE

• gigantic
• miniature
• short
• tall
• tiny

SHAPE

• jagged (edges)
• multi-layered (petals)
• pointed, pointy
• ragged (edges)
• round
• ruffled (petals)
• symmetrical
• thorny

LOOKS

• beautiful
• blooming
• gorgeous
• iconic
• leafy
• romantic
• striped

OTHER

• common
• edible
• expensive
• favorite
• medicinal
• old-fashioned
• organic
• poisonous
• rare
• sturdy

From Flower - Wikipedia: “A ‘perfect flower’, this Crateva religiosa flower has both stamens (outer ring) and a pistil (center).”

—Sarah M., inviato il 4 marzo 2018 (aggiornato il 4 febbraio 2020)

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