wilting flower
Dying garden beauty
A wilting flower is one that's drooping or withering from lack of water, heat, or age.
Figuratively, a wilting flower describes someone who appears delicate, fading, or overly sensitive—often used dismissively: Don't be such a wilting flower.
The related term wilting violet carries similar connotations of excessive fragility or shyness.
- droopingHanging or bending downward
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
- petalsColored bloom segments
- witheredDried and shrunken
- dyingCeasing to live
past its prime · parched · dry · drying out · thirsty · vase · stem · garden · decay · browning · limp · fragile · delicate · heat · summer · neglected · sad · lost love
- still lifefruit bowl, bouquet, grapes, apples, pears
- death symbolsskull, skeleton, coffin, tombstone, gravestone
- death artmemento mori, vanitas, danse macabre, dance of death, skull art
life cycle stage
wilting flowerflower bud
Immature, closed blossom
new growth · spring blossom · first bloom · spring flower · evergreen
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