flourish

flourish has 25 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• v. i.. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
• v. i.. 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.
• v. i.. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
• v. i.. To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
• v. i.. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
• v. i.. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
• v. i.. To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
• v. t.. To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
• v. t.. To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
• n.. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.