flourish

flourish is a 8-letter English word with 25 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 25 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
2. intransitive verb. 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.
3. intransitive verb. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
4. intransitive verb. To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
5. intransitive verb. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
6. intransitive verb. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
7. intransitive verb. To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
8. transitive verb. To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
9. transitive verb. 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.
10. transitive verb. To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
11. transitive verb. To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
12. noun. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
13. noun. Decoration; ornament; beauty.
14. noun. 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 words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
15. noun. A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
16. noun. A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
17. noun. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
18. noun. (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments

    "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"

    "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"

    Synonyms: fanfare, tucket

19. noun. the act of waving

    Synonyms: brandish

20. noun. a display of ornamental speech or language
21. noun. a showy gesture

    "she entered with a great flourish"

22. noun. an ornamental embellishment in writing
23. verb. grow vigorously

    "The deer population in this town is thriving"

    "business is booming"

    Synonyms: boom, expand, thrive

24. verb. move or swing back and forth

    "She waved her gun"

    Synonyms: brandish, wave

25. verb. make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance

    "The new student is thriving"

    Synonyms: prosper, thrive

Synonyms

fanfare, tucket, brandish, boom, expand, thrive, wave, prosper

Common word forms

flourished, flourisher, flourishes, flourishing, flourishable, flourishment

Words from these letters

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