Flourish

Definition: Flourish

Flourish

Noun

1. A showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish".

2. An ornamental embellishment in writing.

3. A display of ornamental speech or language.

4. The act of waving.

5. A short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare".

Verb

1. Grow stronger; "The economy was booming".

2. Gain in wealth.

3. Move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flourish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Flourish

Agitation

Agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.

Boasting

Verb: boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague, blow, four-flush, bluff.

Noun: boasting; Verb: boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas; highfalutin, highfaluting; hot air, spread-eagleism; brag, braggardism; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactancy; bounce; venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration.

Evolution

Brandish, shake, flourish.

Exaggeration

Heighten, overcolor; color highly, color too highly; broder; flourish; color; (misrepresent); puff; (boast).

Health

Verb: be in health; Adjective: bloom, flourish.

Ornament

Pattern, diaper, powdering, paneling, graining, pargeting; detail; repousse (convexity); texture; richness; tracery, molding, fillet, listel, strapwork, coquillage, flourish, fleur-de-lis, arabesque, fret, anthemion; egg and tongue, egg and dart; astragal, zigzag, acanthus, cartouche; pilaster; (projection); bead, beading; champleve ware, cloisonne ware; frost work, Moresque, Morisco, tooling.

Ostentation

Noun: ostentation, display, show, flourish, parade, etalage, pomp, array, state, solemnity; dash, splash, splurge, glitter, strut, pomposity; pretense, pretensions; showing off; fuss.

Prosperity

Verb: prosper, thrive, flourish; be prosperous; Adjective: drive a roaring trade, do a booming business; go on well, go on smoothly, go on swimmingly; sail before the wind, swim with the tide; run smooth, run smoothly, run on all fours.

Repute

Live, flourish, glitter, flaunt, gain honor, acquire honor; Noun: play first fiddle; (be of importance), bear the palm, bear the bell; lead the way; take precedence, take the wall of; gain laurels, win laurels, gain spurs, gain golden opinions; (approbation); take one's degree, pass one's examination.

Speech

Hold forth; make a speech,.deliver a speech; Noun: speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs; have one's say, say one's say; spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage; expatiate; (speak at length); speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump.

Crosswords: Flourish

Thus, we flourish or perish (Cowboy Bebop; writing credit: Akihiko Inari)

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Books

• 101 Ways to Make Your Classroom Special: Creating a Place Where Significance, Teamwork, and Spontaneity Can Sprout and Flourish (reference)

• Flowers with a Flourish (reference)

• Garden Florals With Flourish & Flair: 16 Beautiful Silk Floral Projects With That Fresh-Picked Look (reference)

• Helping Young Children Flourish (reference)

• How to Raise an Adopted Child: A Guide to Help Your Child Flourish from Infancy Through Adolescence (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Let Glasgow Flourish (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Christmas Flourish (reference)

• Flourish (reference)

• Let Glasgow Flourish (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Spartina alterniflora was planted at several cell sites around East Timbalier Island. This cell was not very successful. The Spartina did not take well as the platform substrate was determined to be too high for Spartina to flourish. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The only surgeon was one who combined the occasional exercise of that noble art with the daily and habitual flourish of a razor

She had a little property, which she had bequeathed to a religious community with great flourish.

The palace Flourish.

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Health

At the new sites, the body's immune defenses kill many bacilli, but immune cells and local tissue die as well. The dead cells and tissue, along with live immune cells, form granulomas whose centers have the consistency of soft cheese, where the bacilli survive but do not flourish. (references)

Business

Throughout China, a lively tabloid sector continues to flourish. (references)

Domestic law to permit such unofficial relations with Taiwan to flourish. (references)

However, as Korea’s demand for production applications for high tech electronics continues to flourish, several sectors seem to be most promising for U.S. firms, including non-memory semiconductors, advanced passive components (resistors, capacitors), and mechanical components (connectors, printed circuit boards). (references)

Civil Liberties

Lithuania

The independent print media continued to flourish and included a wide range of newspapers and magazines. (references)

Indonesia

Political activity, open discussions, and blunt criticism of the Government at universities continued to flourish during the year. (references)

Indonesia

Private commercial television networks, most with ownership by, or with management ties to, former President Soeharto's family, continued to flourish. (references)

Economic History

Dominican Rep

In the past three years, retail and service franchises began to flourish and are growing rapidly. (references)

Iceland

Unlike its literature, Iceland's fine arts did not flourish until the 19th century because the population was small and scattered. (references)

China

The Taiwan Relations Act made the necessary changes in U.S. domestic law to permit such unofficial relations with Taiwan to flourish. (references)

Political Economy

Luxembourg

While the CSV, DP, and LSAP constitute the primary political orientations and have traditionally dominated Luxembourg politics, several smaller parties flourish. (references)

Women

Cambodia

Despite sporadic crackdowns on brothel operators in Phnom Penh, prostitution continued to flourish. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

Contract labor continues to flourish, undercutting the power of the unions and exploiting workers who are willing to work on temporary contracts with fewer benefits and no job security. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "flourish": ad with flourish of trumpet ♦ flourish again ♦ flourish of trumpets. Additional references.

Ending with "flourish": mid-flourish.

Afrikaans

floreer (be succesful, prosper, thrive). (various references)

Albanian

vringëlloj (brandish, clank), vringëllimë, vringëllij (clank), valëvitje (flutter, waft, wave), tundje (agitation, beating, jar, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jolting, misdoubt, nutation, oscillation, reel, rumble-tumble, shake, shaking, shimmy, sway, swing, teeter, thrill, tossing, waddle, wag, waggle, wave, wiggle, wiggle-waggle), shprehje për efekt, shpalos (display, expand, open, spread, unfold, unfurl), përparoj (advance, carry forward, come along, come on, do, do well, forge, get along, get on, go ahead, go on, make one's way through, progress), mbrothësi (prosperity), lulka, lulëzoj (bloom, blossom, blow, boom, effloresce, flower, prosper, thrive), lulëzim (bloom, blooming, blossoming, blow, blowing, efflorescence, exfoliation, florescence, flower, flowering, heyday, inflorescence, meridian, pride, prime, prosperity, thrift), demonstroj (demonstrate, document, parade, show), demonstrim (demo, demonstration, ostentation, parade, show). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فترة إزدهار, ‏مقطع منمق, ‏نجح (achieve, arrive, bring off, click, get on, get through, go off well, make, make a go of it, make efficient, make good, make out, make the grade, manage, pan, pan out, pass, prosper, pull off, pull through, succeed, thrive, triumph, win out, work it), ‏لوح (blackboard, flag, gesture, sheet, slab, tablet, wave), ‏ومأ متباهيا, ‏تأنق بياني, ‏تأنق (doll up, dude oneself up, elegance, mannerism, preen, smarten, spruce, spruce oneself, stylishness, swank, titivate, titivation), ‏تباه (boast, brag, show off), ‏زخرف (adorn, bedeck, deck, decorate, do, embellish, embellishment, emboss, embroider, enrich, garnish, grace, illuminate, illustrate, lard, ornament, ornamentation, string, trace, trick, trick out, trick up, trim), ‏ذيل زخرفي, ‏ذدهر, ‏إزدهر (blossom, boom, grow up, prosper, thrive). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тръбя на фанфара, достигам върха на кариерата си, пиша със заврънкулки, претенциозен жест, процъфтявам (burgeon, prosper, succeed, thrive), живея и творя в дадено време, заврънкулки, деен съм, шумен пасаж, свиря пасаж с бравура, фанфара (fanfare, tucket), цветист израз, хваля се (boast, bounce, brag, glory, rodomontade, splurge, swagger, talk big, talk tall, vapor, vapour, vaunt), размахвам (brandish, flap, shoot out, swing, switch, wave, whisk, wigwag), размахване (flirt, flourishing, waft, whisk), ръкомахам възторжено, служа си с цветист език, вирея (prosper, thrive). (various references)

Chinese 

茂盛 (Flourished, Flourishes, flourishing), 興盛 (thrive), 興 (interest, it is the fashion to, to become popular), 薈 , 昌 (prosperous). (various references)

Czech

fanfára (cadenza, fanfare), vzkvétat (boom, thrive), bujet (thrive). (various references)

Danish

forsiring (gracenotes), figur (diagram, figure, image, picture, representation). (various references)

Dutch

fanfarekorps (fanfare), fanfare (fanfare). (various references)

Esperanto

fanfaro (fanfare). (various references)

Faeroese

trívast (be succesful, prosper, thrive), eydnast (be succesful, prosper, succeed, thrive). (various references)

Finnish

rehottaa (luxuriate), kukoistaa (bloom, prosper, thrive), koukero (curlicue). (various references)

French

floriture (flower), fleurir (flower), fioritures (literary flourish), faire orner, s'orner de fleurs, se resplendir, se prospérer, prospérer (floor), ornement, brandir (fling), avoir du succès, éclore. (various references)

German

schnörkel (curlicue, embellishment, flourishes, scroll, squiggle, twirl), tusch (fanfare), gedeihen (accrue, batten, be succesful, develop, flourishing, grow, make progress, progress, prosper, prospering, success, thrive, thrived, thriven, thriving, to batten), blühen (be in store, bloom, blooming, blossom, flower, prosper, thrive, to flourish), aufblühen (bloom, blossom out, to flourish). (various references)

Greek 

κραδαίνω (brandish, sway, swish, switch), ακμάζω (bloom, prosper), ανθώ (bloom, burgeon). (various references)

Hebrew 

לש�'ש�' (boom, get ahead, prosper, thrive), לפרוח (bloom, blossom, flower, prosper, thrive), לצלוח (prosper, succeed, thrive), ל� ופף (brandish, swing, wave), ל� וב (bud, grow, sprout, thrive), תרועת חצוורות (fanfare, trumpet call). (various references)

Hungarian

cikornya (quirk, scroll, twirl), lebegtetés (flutter, wave, wobbling), cifrázat, egészség (health, salubrity, to breathe health, well-being), feltűnő fitogtatás, fioritúra, hadonászás, harsonaszó (fanfare, flourish of trumpets), határozott tollvonás, jólét (abundance, comfort, flesh-pots of egypt, pecuniary ease, plenty, prosperity, sufficiency, weal, wealth, welfare, well being), körben forgatás, kacskaringó (curlicue, scroll), kihívó csillogtatás, ékítés (adornment), lóbálás (brandish, sway), virulás (blooming), lendületes mozdulat, lendületes tollvonás, lengetés (flaunt, flutter, oscillation, wave), lobogtatás (flaunt, flutter), merész tollvonás, sallang (frills, frippery), suhogtatás (brandish), széles mozdulat (sweeping gesture), szóvirág (flowers of speech, frills, garnish, trimming), trombitaszó (blare, flourish of trumpets, toot, trumpet, trumpet call), tus (black ink, butt, clack ink, douche, india ink, indian ink, ink, shower), villogtatás, virágzás (bloom, blooming, blossom, blossoming, blow, boom, florescence, flourishing, flowering, inflorescence), kihívó fitogtatás. (various references)

Indonesian

membiak. (various references)

Italian

prosperare (be succesful, boom, prosper, thrive), fiorire (bloom, blossom, effloresce, flower). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

花形 (floral pattern, ornament, star actor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はながた (floral pattern, ornament, star actor). (various references)

Korean 

번영하십시�" (Prosper). (various references)

Manx

skyoll (a large quantity, abundance, lot, shoal), screebage (cockleshell, scar, scratch), erreayrtey, blaaghey (bloom, bud, flower). (various references)

Norwegian

florere, fanfare, trives, snirkel. (various references)

Pig Latin

ourishflay.(various references)

Polish

prosperować (be succesful, prosper, thrive), powodzić się (be succesful, prosper, thrive). (various references)

Portuguese

florescer (bloom, blossom, bud, flower, grow, prosper, thrive), floresça, floreio, floreados (gracenotes), floreado musical, floreado caligráfico, fanfarra (fanfare), toque (beat, dab, ringing, sounding, toque, touch, touching), prosperar (look up, prosper, succeed, thrive), prelúdio (prelude), esplendor (blaze, bravery, bright, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, eclat, effulgence, grandeur, illumination, irradiation, luster, lustre, magnificence, pomp, radiance, radiancy, resplendence, sheen, splendor, splendour), desenvolver-se (accumulate, burnish, evolve, grow, progress, pullulate, thrive, uncurl), charanga (fanfare), brilhar (burn, flame, flash, glance, gleam, glint, glisten, glister, glitter, irradiate, lamp, lighten, scintillate, shine, sparkle, twinkle), agitar (abet, agitate, alarm, beat, brandish, bustle, churn, cob, commove, convulse, dimple, discompose, excite, faze, ferment, flap, flick, fling, flounce, flurry, flutter, fret, incite, jar, jingle, jounce, moot, perturb, pulsate, quiver, ripple, shake, stir, stir up, sway, swing, switch, toss, ventilate, waggle, wave, whip up, whisk). (various references)

Romanian

flutura (brandish, flaunt, flit, float, flow, flutter, fly, quiver, swing, wave, whisk about), fi înfloritor, figurã de stil (figure of speech, trope), înflori (bloom, blossom, blow, boom, break into blossom, effloresce, flower, thrive), înfloriturã (floridity), înfloriturã a scrisului, acord final, agita (agitate, arouse, brandish, bustle, churn, excite, fidget, flirt, flurry, flutter, fret, fume, incite, raise, rouse, ruffle, shake, shake up, shock, stir, trouble, vex, wag, waggle, wave, wriggle), agitare (agitation, fretfulness), codiţã (defect, shortcoming, sycophant), desena înflorituri, etala (demonstrate, display, exhibit, expose, parade, sport, spread, trot out), expresie bombasticã, împodobi cu înflorituri, mişca cu gesturi largi, vorbi bombastic, mişcare largã cu braţul, orna (adorn, deck, decorate, fit out, flag, garnish, ornament, trim), parafa (clench, initial, seal), parafã (initial, paraph, scroll), pasaj ornamentat, preludia, propãşi (thrive), prospera (boom, do well, make good, prosper, strike oil, thrive), prosperitate (bonanza, boom, flourishing, glory, heyday, prosperity, thriving, weal, welfare, wellbeing), scrie (be spelt, compose, create, inscribe, produce, spell, write), stare de înflorire, sunet de trompetã (blare, Bray), tiradã (rigmarole, tirade), gesticulare. (various references)

Russian 

процветать (prosper, thrive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

fanfara, ukras (adornment, decoration, fallal, garnish, ornament), mahati (brandish, swing, wag, wave), mahanje (shaking, wag, wave), kitnjast stil, cvetati (bloom, blossom, flower). (various references)

Spanish

floritura (curlicue), florecer (bloom, blossom, bud, come out, effloresce, flower, thrive, vegetate). (various references)

Swedish

svänga (brandish, camber, curve, oscillate, pivot, sway, swing, vacillate, veer, wheel, whirl), fanfar (fanfare, fanfaronade), blomstra (bloom, blossom, flower, fly high, prosper, thrive). (various references)

Turkish

fanfar (fanfare), fanfar çalmak, süslü konuşmak, büyümek (accrue, augment, bulk, enlarge, expand, extend, greaten, grow, grow up, hatch, increase, outgrow, shoot up, swell, vegetate, wax), dalgalanmak (balance, float, fluctuate, flutter, fly, ripple, ruffle, shiver, stream, surge, undulate, wave, whip), gösteriş (affectation, array, blazon, blazonry, dash, display, flashiness, frill, furbelows, gaiety, glitter, glossiness, ostentation, panache, parade, pomposity, pretension, pride, put on, shew, show, show off, showiness, showing off, splendidness, splurge, swank, vanity, veneer, veneering), gösterişli hareket, güzelleşmek (bloom, blossom out, refine, wax beautiful), gelişme (advance, advancement, amelioration, budding, development, expansion, formative, growing, growth, headway, improvement, inflorescence, pickup, progress, strides), abartılı jestler yapmak, süs (adornment, apparel, attire, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, encrustation, enrichment, facings, falbala, falbelo, fancy, finery, flamboyance, flower, frill, frippery, garnish, garnishment, garniture, get up, make up, ornament, ornamental, ornamentation, scrimshaw, setoff, setout, trim, trimming), yıldızı parlamak (be in the ascendant, be in the ascendent, blaze, flash), süslü söz, süslemek (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedight, caparison, crown, damask, deck out, decorate, dike, dizen, doll out, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, embroider, enamel, enrich, fancy up, fig out, figure, garnish, gild, gird, grace, interlard, lace, lard, ornament, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, scrimshaw, set, smarten, tart up, tire, titivate, trick out, trick up, trig out, trig up, trim, zing up, zip, zip up), sağlıklı olmak, sallama (agitation, jog, rocking, shake, shaking, swing, swinging, wag, wagging, waving), sallamak (agitate, Bob, brandish, flap, flirt, jog, joggle, jolt, nod, rock, roll, shake, swing, switch, wag, waggle, wave), savrulmak (be dispersed, be driven away, be scattered, dash, fly, skid), savurma (blowing about, hurl, scattering, tossing), sergilemek (display, display of smth., emcee, execute, exhibit, expose, set out, shew, show), tören borusu, gelişmek (advance, ameliorate, blossom, blossom out, boom, branch out, develop, evolve, expand, flower, go ahead, grow, grow up, improve, make headway, progress, refine, shape, shape up, thrive, unfold). (various references)

Ukrainian

розчерк (scroll, twirl), розмахувати (swish, throw about, weave), розмахування (flutter, swinging), хвастати (beat to drums, blow, bluster, boast, brag, cut a dash, display, gab, gasconade, glory, splurge, swank, talk big, talk horse, vapor, vapour, vaunt), бундючний жест, процвітати (be in the money, blossom, get ahead, prosper, thrive), пишно рости. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vũ khí, sự trang trí bay bướm, nét viền hoa mỹ sự diễn đạt hoa mỹ, nét trang trí hoa mỹ, nét hoa mỹ, đoạn nhạc đệm tuỳ ứng. (various references)

Welsh

chwifio (brandish, wave), bucheddu (live), blodeuo (bloom, blossom, flower), blaguro (bud, sprout). (various references)

efflorebit, effloruerit, effloruit, flore, floreat, florebit, florebunt, florent, florentia, florere, flores, florete, floruerunt, floruisset, floruit, niteo, quassatam, quassatum, refloruistis, refloruit, vigent. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "flourish": flourished, flourisher, flourishers, flourishes, flourishing, flourishingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flourish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Claurigh, Fleuris, florish, flouish, Flourens, flourist, fluorish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: flours, fluors, houris.

-3 letters: filos, flour, fluor, flush, foils, fouls, fours, frosh, furls, fusil, hilus, houri, hours, hurls, loris, louis, lours, roils, rolfs, shorl, sulfo.

-4 letters: filo, fils, firs, fish, flus, foil, foul, four, furl, furs, hols, hour, hurl, lour, lush, oils, ours, rhos, rhus, rifs, roil, rolf, rush, shri, shul, silo, slur.

+2 letters: flourished, flourisher, flourishes, worshipful.

+3 letters: flourishers, flourishing.

+4 letters: foresightful, worshipfully.

+5 letters: flourishingly, flugelhornist.