'Flourishing' definitions:
Definition of 'flourishing'
From: WordNet
adjective
Very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids" [syn: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving]
Definition of 'Flourishing'
From: GCIDE
- Flourish \Flour"ish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flourished; p. pr. & vb. n. Flourishing.] [OE. florisshen, flurisshen, OF. flurir, F. fleurir, fr. L. florere to bloom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower, and -ish.]
- 1. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. [1913 Webster]
- A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. --Bp. Horne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production. [1913 Webster]
- When all the workers of iniquity do flourish. --Ps. xcii 7 [1913 Webster]
- Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness. --Nelson. [1913 Webster]
- We say Of those that held their heads above the crowd, They flourished then or then. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. [1913 Webster]
- They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents. --J. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. [1913 Webster]
- Impetuous spread The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. [1913 Webster]
- Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To boast; to vaunt; to brag. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flourishing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundant,
- balmy,
- blooming,
- blossoming,
- booming,
- bountiful,
- brandish,
- brandishing,
- budding,
- burgeoning,
- bursting,
- bursting out,
- clear,
- copious,
- creative,
- crescent,
- dense,
- developed,
- exuberant,
- fair,
- fat,
- fecund,
- fertile,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- florescent,
- flourish,
- flowering,
- fructiferous,
- fruitful,
- fruiting,
- full-fledged,
- full-grown,
- fully developed,
- generous,
- going strong,
- gross,
- growing,
- grown,
- grown-up,
- halcyon,
- heavy,
- hypertrophied,
- impenetrable,
- in full swing,
- in good case,
- increasing,
- jungled,
- jungly,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- mature,
- overdeveloped,
- overgrown,
- overrun,
- palmy,
- piping,
- plenteous,
- plentiful,
- pregnant,
- productive,
- proliferous,
- prolific,
- prospering,
- prosperous,
- rank,
- rich,
- riotous,
- rosy,
- seminal,
- shaking,
- sleek,
- sprouting,
- successful,
- superabundant,
- swarming,
- teeming,
- thick,
- thriving,
- uberous,
- undulation,
- unweeded,
- vigorous,
- wave,
- wave motion,
- waving,
- weed-choked,
- weed-ridden,
- weedy