'Thriving' definitions:
Definition of 'thriving'
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 'Thriving'
From: GCIDE
- Thrive \Thrive\ (thr[imac]v), v. i. [imp. Throve (thr[=o]v) or Thrived (thr[imac]vd); p. p. Thrived or Thriven (thr[i^]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Thriving.] [OE. [thorn]riven, Icel. [thorn]r[imac]fask; probably originally, to grasp for one's self, from [thorn]r[imac]fa to grasp; akin to Dan. trives to thrive, Sw. trifvas. Cf. Thrift.]
- 1. To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry. [1913 Webster]
- Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To prosper in any business; to have increase or success. "They by vices thrive." --Sandys. [1913 Webster]
- O son, why sit we here, each other viewing Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- And so she throve and prospered. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'thriving'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundance,
- abundant,
- advancing,
- balmy,
- blooming,
- blossoming,
- booming,
- bountiful,
- budding,
- burgeoning,
- bursting,
- bursting out,
- clear,
- copious,
- creative,
- crescent,
- developed,
- ease,
- easy,
- exuberant,
- fair,
- fat,
- fecund,
- fertile,
- florescent,
- flourishing,
- flowering,
- fructiferous,
- fruitful,
- fruiting,
- full-fledged,
- full-grown,
- fully developed,
- generous,
- going strong,
- growing,
- grown,
- grown-up,
- halcyon,
- hypertrophied,
- in full swing,
- in good case,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- mature,
- overdeveloped,
- overgrown,
- palmy,
- piping,
- plenteous,
- plentiful,
- pregnant,
- productive,
- progressing,
- proliferous,
- prolific,
- prospering,
- prosperous,
- rich,
- roaring,
- robust,
- rosy,
- seminal,
- sleek,
- sprouting,
- superabundant,
- swarming,
- teeming,
- thrifty,
- uberous,
- vigorous,
- well-being