flourishing
- growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous: a flourishing little business.
Origin of flourishing
flourish
- to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
- to be in its or in one's prime; be at the height of fame, excellence, influence, etc.
- to be successful; prosper.
- to grow luxuriantly, or thrive in growth, as a plant.
- to make dramatic, sweeping gestures: Flourish more when you act out the king's great death scene.
- to add embellishments and ornamental lines to writing, letters, etc.
- to sound a trumpet call or fanfare.
- to brandish dramatically; gesticulate with: a conductor flourishing his baton for the crescendo.
- to decorate or embellish (writing, a page of script, etc.) with sweeping or fanciful curves or lines.
- an act or instance of brandishing.
- an ostentatious display.
- a decoration or embellishment, especially in writing: He added a few flourishes to his signature.
- Rhetoric. a parade of fine language; an expression used merely for effect.
- a trumpet call or fanfare.
- a condition or period of thriving: in full flourish.
Origin of flourish
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Related Words for flourishing
prosperous, blooming, growing, thriving, burgeoning, roaring, rank, mushrooming, exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, rampant, rich, robust, successful, vigorousExamples from the Web for flourishing
Contemporary Examples of flourishing
Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.
Strangio is at his best when exposing what appears to be a flourishing civil society in Cambodia.
The Barzani government, on the other hand, has had flourishing ties with Turkey.
But there was certainly a flourishing of it right after World War II.
So yes, couture is alive and flourishing, thanks to wealth located far from its spiritual home of Paris.
Historical Examples of flourishing
They call me a beau and a buck, a slasher and dasher, and flourishing Phil.
Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
I'll never call you flourishing Phil again, so don't be standing on pride.
Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
I saw her several years afterwards with her husband, happy and flourishing.
The Sexual QuestionAugust Forel
He fell into ill-health, but when he died the business was left in a flourishing condition.
A Zola DictionaryJ. G. Patterson
A large and flourishing city, named Thapsacus, stands on its banks.
AnabasisXenophon
flourish
- (intr) to thrive; prosper
- (intr) to be at the peak of condition
- (intr) to be healthyplants flourish in the light
- to wave or cause to wave in the air with sweeping strokes
- to display or make a display
- to play (a fanfare, etc) on a musical instrument
- (intr) to embellish writing, characters, etc, with ornamental strokes
- to add decorations or embellishments to (speech or writing)
- (intr) an obsolete word for blossom
- the act of waving or brandishing
- a showy gesturehe entered with a flourish
- an ornamental embellishment in writing
- a display of ornamental language or speech
- a grandiose passage of music
- an ostentatious display or parade
- obsolete
- the state of flourishing
- the state of flowering
Word Origin for flourish
Word Origin and History for flourishing
flourish
c.1500, "a blossom," from flourish (v.). Meaning "ostentatious waving of a weapon" is from 1550s; that of "literary or rhetorical embellishment" is from c.1600.
flourish
c.1300, "to blossom, grow," from Old French floriss-, stem of florir "blossom, flower, bloom, flourish," from Latin florere "to bloom, blossom, flower," figuratively "to flourish, be prosperous," from flos "a flower" (see flora).
Metaphoric sense of "thrive" is mid-14c. Meaning "to brandish (a weapon)" first attested late 14c. Related: Flourished; flourishing.