Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
- 2intransitive 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.
- 3intransitive verb
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
- 4intransitive verb
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- 5intransitive verb
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
- 6intransitive verb
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- 7intransitive verb
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
- 8transitive verb
To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- 9transitive 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.
- 10transitive verb
To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
- 11transitive verb
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- 12noun
A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
- 13noun
Decoration; ornament; beauty.
- 14noun
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.
- 15noun
A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
- 16noun
A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
- 17noun
The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
- 18noun
(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
"he entered to a flourish of trumpets"
"her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
- 19noun
the act of waving
Synonyms
- 20noun
a display of ornamental speech or language
- 21noun
a showy gesture
"she entered with a great flourish"
- 22noun
an ornamental embellishment in writing
- 23verb
grow vigorously
"The deer population in this town is thriving"
"business is booming"
- 24verb
move or swing back and forth
"She waved her gun"
- 25verb
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"
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