Flourish

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