Palmy

Definition: Palmy

Palmy

Adjective

1. Very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids".

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Date "palmy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Synonyms: Palmy

Cheerfulness

Sunny, palmy; hopeful.

Cheering, inspiriting, exhilarating; cardiac, cardiacal; pleasing; palmy.

Pain

Palmy, halcyon, Saturnian.

Pleasure

Honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna, Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone.

Prosperity

Palmy, halcyon; agreeable; couleur de rose.

Luck; good luck, run of luck; sunshine; fair weather, fair wind; palmy days, bright days, halcyon days; piping times, tide, flood, high tide.

Crosswords: Palmy

Palmy Days (1931)

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

Expressions using "palmy": in one's palmy days ♦ palmy days. Additional references.

Albanian

plot palma, i lulëzuar (flourishing, flowering, prosperous, thriving), i begatë (affluent, flourishing, flush, fulsome, luxuriant, prosperous, thrifty, wealthy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كثير النخيل, ‏محاط بالنخيل, ‏مزدهر (flourishing, flowered, prospering, prosperous, thrifty, thriving), ‏مبتهج (alacrity, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, debonair, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, mellow, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, rejoicing, upbeat), ‏نضر (succulent), ‏عذب (agonize, agreeable, bedevil, benign, charming, chasten, crucify, devil, dulcet, freshen, grilled, harrow, harry, hearty, leisurely, liquid, murder, persecute, pillory, plague, quiet, rack, rack one's brains, scourge, silken, silky, sleek, smite, smooth, smooth spoken, soft, suave, sweet, sympathetic, tantalize, tease, tender, torment, torture, wrench, wring), ‏رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, mighty, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, picturesque, portentous, precious, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, showy, sightly, signal, singular, smash, smashing, solid, some, spanking, sparkling, splendid, stunning, stupendous, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), ‏بهي (glorious, gorgeous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

щастлив (auspicious, blessed, favored, favoured, fortunate, glad, happy, joyful, joyous, lucky, providential, saturnian, well), цветущ (flourishing, well-liking), с много палми, палмовиден, палмов (palm tree, palmaceous). (various references)

Czech

vítìzný (triumphal, victorious, winning), skvìlý (accomplished, admirable, bright, brilliant, dashing, distinguished, excellent, fine, glorious, grand, proud, splendid, swell, tiptop, wonderful). (various references)

Farsi 

نخلی , کامیاب (Prosperous), دارای نخل , برجسته (Boss, Dominant, Egregious, Eminent, Illustrious, Laureate, Masterwork, Outstanding, Palmary, Predominant, Prime, Profile, Prominent, Saleint, Swell, Tyupical). (various references)

French

heureux, glorieux, florissant, bordé de palmiers, agréable. (various references)

German

glorreich (famous, glorious, gloriously, illustrious). (various references)

Greek 

πλήρησ φοινίκων, θάλλων. (various references)

Hebrew 

מש�'ש�' (blooming, efflorescent, flourishing, on velvet, proliferating, prosperous). (various references)

Hungarian

pálmás, virágzó (abloom, blooming, flourishing, flowering, flowery, full blown, full-blown, prime, prosperous, thriving), boldog (beaming, beatific, blessed, blissful, felicitate, felicitous, glad, gladsome, happy, sunny, to be fain to do sg). (various references)

Indonesian

subur makmur. (various references)

Italian

prospero (bonanza, prosperous), glorioso (glorious), folto di palme. (various references)

Manx

palmagh (palmaceous). (various references)

Pig Latin

almypay.(various references)

Portuguese

próspero (auspicious, bonanza, flourishing, golden, moneymaking, prosperous, successful, thrifty, well-off, well-to-do), relativo a palmeira, florescente (abloom, blooming, flourishing, flowering, prosperous, thrifty), feliz (blissful, carefree, felicitous, fortunate, gay, glad, gladsome, happy, joyous, lucky, merry, prosperous, providential, successful), coberto de palmeiras, cheio de palmeiras. (various references)

Romanian

prosper (bonanza, flourishing, prosperous, thrifty, thriving, wealthy, well to do), victorios (triumphantly, victorious, victoriously, winning), umbrit de palmieri, triumfãtor (cock-a-hoop, invincibly, jubilant, triumphant, triumphantly, victoriously), cu palmieri, ca de palmier, înfloritor (blooming, flourishing, lusty, prosperous, thrifty, thriving), încununat de lauri. (various references)

Russian 

пальмовый (palm, palm tree, palmaceous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

palmovit, palmast (palmaceous), u cvetu (abloom). (various references)

Spanish

próspero (auspicious, booming, flourishing, going, prosperous, successful, thrifty), glorioso (famed, glorious, proud, vintage), de palma. (various references)

Swedish

palmliknande, palmbevuxen. (various references)

Turkish

palmiyeli, rahat ve huzurlu, mutlu (blissful, blithe, chuffed, contented, delighted, elated, felicitous, happy, merry, rejoicing), başrılı. (various references)

Ukrainian

щасливий (blessed, blithe, chancy, felicitous, fortunate, golden, happy, joyful, joyous, lucky, overjoyed, providential, thrifty), пальмовий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

rực rỡ (fine, flamboyant, fulgent, gay, glorious, gorgeous, illuminant, lustrous, refulgent, sheeny, splendid), quang vinh (kudos, laurel). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "palmy": palmyra, palmyras. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: amply.

-1 letter: amyl, lamp, palm, paly, play.

-2 letters: alp, amp, lam, lap, lay, map, may, pal, pam, pay, ply, pya, yam, yap.

-3 letters: al, am, ay, la, ma, my, pa, ya.

+1 letter: damply.

+2 letters: amplify, campily, lamprey, maypole, misplay, nymphal, palmary, palmyra, polyoma.

+3 letters: empyreal, ladypalm, lampreys, lampyrid, lymphoma, mayapple, maypoles, misapply, misplays, olympiad, palimony, palmyras, playmate, playroom, playtime, polygamy, polymath, polyomas, psalmody, ptyalism, tympanal.

+4 letters: amblyopia, amblyopic, amphiboly, amplidyne, ampullary, amylopsin, blasphemy, compactly, cytoplasm, diplomacy, exemplary, homoplasy, ladypalms, lampyrids, lymphatic, lymphomas, mayapples, misplayed, nymphalid, olympiads, optimally, palmately, palmistry, paramylum, playmaker, playmates, playrooms, playtimes, polyamide, polyamine, polygamic, polymaths, polymathy, primality, primarily, ptyalisms, pulmonary, pyramidal, rampantly, sympetaly, sympodial.