flourishing

[flur-i-shing, fluhr-]

adjective

1. growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous.

   a flourishing little business.

Other Word Forms

• flourishingly adverb
• unflourishing adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of flourishing¹

A Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; flourish, -ing ²

Example Sentences

For all its dangers, this elimination of entire categories of jobs may produce a flourishing of entrepreneurial activity.

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But they are flourishing within a kind of Gilded Age that’s at a deep remove from the rest of Black America.

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Both books are impressive works of scholarship that combine cold analytic reasoning with an ardent concern for human flourishing.

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“Hallelujah,” Jin responded, according to Long, who interpreted the pastor’s reaction through the lens of Christianity’s history of flourishing under persecution.

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Another sign of progress is how Ms. Badenoch talks about reforms, which she frames as a matter of human flourishing and fairness.

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