FLOURISHING
booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving
(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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
flourishing (comparative more flourishing, superlative most flourishing)
growing, thriving, doing well
Synonyms
• fortunate, prosperous, successful; see also prosperous
Verb
flourishing
present participle of flourish
Noun
flourishing (plural flourishings)
The action of the verb flourish; flowering.
Source: Wiktionary
FLOURISH
Flour"ish, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flourished; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flourishing.] Etym: [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.
A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.
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.
When all the workers of iniquity do flourish. Ps. xcii 7
Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of
their wickedness. Nelson.
We say Of those that held their heads above the crowd, They
flourished then or then. Tennyson.
3. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty
expressions; to be flowery.
They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents. J. Watts.
4. To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way
of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and
irregular motion.
Impetuous spread The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
Pope.
5. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful,
decorative figures.
6. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of
ornament or prelude.
Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus Shak.
7. To boast; to vaunt; to brag. Pope.
Flour"ish, v. t.
1. To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or
artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. [Obs.]
Fenton.
2. To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical
figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a
parade of words. [Obs.]
Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth flourish the deceit.
Shak.
3. To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or
vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
And flourishes his blade in spite of me. Shak.
4. To develop; to make thrive; to expand. [Obs.]
Bottoms of thread . . . which with a good needle, perhaps flourished
into large works. Bacon.
Flour"ish, n.; pl. Flourishes (.
1. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. [Archaic]
The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like.
Howell.
2. Decoration; ornament; beauty.
The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth.
Crashaw.
3. Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting
manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.;
ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification;
parade of wordas, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
He lards with flourishes his long harangue. Dryden.
4. A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative
figure.
The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed.
Boyle.
5. A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or
bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a
fanfare.
A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums! Shak.
6. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the
fluorish of a sword.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition