thriving

[thrahy-ving]

adjective

1. prospering or doing well; highly successful.

   The Arts Commission plans to expand its thriving ArtSmart program into all 21 of the city’s elementary schools.

2. growing or developing vigorously; flourishing.

   When I worked on her farm ten years ago there was still a thriving goat herd, but she’s been unable to keep it up on her own.

Other Word Forms

• thrivingly adverb
• unthriving adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of thriving¹

thriv(e) ( def. ) + -ing ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

“The guys who chose to stay through the transition, they’re thriving now.”

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Whatever the medium — art, sport or digital — Black celebrities are thriving.

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America’s smallest public companies have been thriving this year in an economy that finally seems to reward them — lower interest rates, steady economic growth and a financial market once again hungry for risk.

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Tribal leaders, however, say the city’s wells are pumping far too much and continue to draw down the water table beneath areas that once had thriving wetlands and meadows.

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And in this, you see this beautiful community thriving and living together, and that was so profound.

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