Definition:
- (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.
- (n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
- (n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
- (n.) The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
Compare flourish with other words:
flourish vs. glorify
flourish vs. lively
fade vs. flourish
flourish vs. flourisher
curlycue vs. flourish
coronis vs. flourish
abundance vs. flourish
content vs. flourish
flourish vs. habitat
flourish vs. ruddy
flourish vs. flower
florid vs. flourish
flourish vs. prosperity
eminence vs. flourish
flourish vs. paraph
flourish vs. flourished
abound vs. flourish
establish vs. flourish
flourish vs. wield
flourish vs. succeed
flourish vs. growth
flourish vs. macedonian
epaulet vs. flourish
flourish vs. modernism
embellishment vs. flourish
flourish vs. passage
flourish vs. ornamentation
ceremonious vs. flourish
flourish vs. waving
flag vs. flourish
flourish vs. gesture
flourish vs. movement
dramatic vs. flourish
bold vs. flourish
flourish vs. sweeping
flourish vs. influence
flourish vs. period
fare vs. flourish
flourish vs. grow
flourish vs. prosper
brandish vs. flourish
fanfare vs. flourish
flourish vs. prosperous
flourish vs. thrive
curl vs. flourish
bloom vs. flourish
flourish vs. swish
blossom vs. flourish
flourish vs. ornament
blooming vs. flourish
boom vs. flourish
anchor vs. flourish