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Definition: Thriving |
ThrivingAdjective1. 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". 2. Having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life; "flourishing crops"; "flourishing chicks"; "a growing boy"; "fast-growing weeds"; "a thriving deer population". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thriving" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Synonyms: ThrivingSynonyms: booming (adj), flourishing (adj), growing (adj), palmy (adj), prospering (adj), prosperous (adj), roaring (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prosperity | Adjective: prosperous; thriving; Verb: in a fair way, buoyant; well off, well to do, well to do in the world; set up, at one's ease; rich; in good case; in full, in high feather; fortunate, lucky, in luck; born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star; on the sunny side of the hedge. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Thriving |
| English words defined with "thriving": acid-loving, Aedes albopictus, alkaline-loving, Asian tiger mosquito ♦ booming ♦ flourishing, Frim ♦ growing ♦ palmy, prospering, prosperous ♦ roaring ♦ Thrivingly ♦ Welfaring, Well off. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thriving": FidoNet ♦ xerophytic grasses. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "thriving": Welfaring. (references) |
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Screenplays | This plant was thriving just this morning (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | NRCS District Conservationist Jon Hubbert works with Peoria County, Illinois conservation farmers to check on the species thriving in a buffer strip one year after installation. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Near Pullman, Washington, (left to right) Kurtis Schroeder, Linda Thomashow, Jim Cook, and David Weller examine healthy wheat thriving in a filed infected by the fungus that causes wheat take-all. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. |
 | Oxyops vitiosa, a leaf weevil, is thriving on invasive melaleuca in southern Florida. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Gary Buckingham.. |  | Crumbling buildings in Tombstone, Arizona, once a thriving mining town. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Scene in Tombstone, Arizona, once a thriving mining town. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Main street of Craig, Colorado, a new and thriving boom town. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hotel on main street of Craig, Colorado. A new and thriving boom town. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Falco, Florida. Falco was a thriving, overcrowded town in the twenties. Now most of its buildings have been fired or torn down, so that today it is only a post office and a crossroads. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | New Englanders do a thriving business off the view. Greenfield, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A Thriving city, Little Rock, Arkansas, "City of Roses". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "FL 05" by Lucien Aréstegüi Commentary: "FRAKTAL LIFE 05 Plants thriving in a flooded wash." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A UTI should be considered when a child or infant seems irritable, is not eating normally, has an unexplained fever that does not go away, has incontinence or loose bowels, or is not thriving. (references) | |
Business | This industry is thriving with a combined annual output of about US$12 billion. (references) | |
Economic History | Jamaica | The hairdressing/barber industry is thriving. (references) |
Cyprus | As a result, Cyprus has a thriving international business sector. (references) | |
Lebanon | Lebanon enjoys a sophisticated domestic audience and a thriving media sector. (references) | |
Minorities | Canada | Provinces other than Quebec often lack adequate French-language schooling and health services, which is of concern to local francophones, although French-language schools and French immersion programs are reported to be thriving in all three prairie provinces. (references) |
Political Economy | Hong Kong | A thriving free market economy operates with limited government interference. (references) |
Chad | Other impediments to sustainable economic growth were corruption and a thriving informal sector outside of government taxation policies. (references) | |
Travel | Korea | At first glance, Korea appears to be "just like any other nation." Its capital city, Seoul, is a modern, thriving metropolis with all of the latest technology the world has to offer. (references) |
Worker Rights | Cape Verde | The law does not prohibit trafficking in persons, and illegal trafficking in economic emigrants to various points in Europe is believed to be a thriving business. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Liza Minnelli | I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving. |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | To a thriving agriculture and the improvements related to it is added a highly interesting extension of useful manufactures, the combined product of professional occupations and of household industry. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Lake Erie was dead, and now it's a thriving resource. |
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| "Thriving" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.38% of the time. "Thriving" is used about 373 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 83.38% | 311 | 16,365 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 16.62% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Total | 100.00% | 373 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "thriving": once-thriving. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ivory thriving | 5 |
coastline dramatic eye pacific thriving under watchful | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "thriving"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i lulëzuar (flourishing, flowering, palmy, prosperous). (various references) | |
Arabic | مزدهر (flourishing, flowered, palmy, prospering, prosperous, thrifty). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | оживен (active, alive, animate, animated, brisk, bustling, crisp, effervescent, heated, hilarious, lively, racy, roaring, rousing, rush, spirited, sprightly, stirring, vivacious), преуспяващ (auspicious, blooming, flourishing, thrifty, up and coming), добре развиващ се. (various references) | |
Chinese | 興旺 (prosperous, to flourish, to prosper), 兴旺 (Boomed, Booming, Prosperous, thrive, Thrived, Thriven, uptick), 勃勃 (exuberant, vigorous). (various references) | |
Finnish | kukoistava (blooming, flourishing). (various references) | |
French | robuste, prospère, florissant. (various references) | |
German | gedeihend (battening). (various references) | |
Hungarian | virágzó (abloom, blooming, flourishing, flowering, flowery, full blown, full-blown, palmy, prime, prosperous), prosperáló, növekvő (ascendant, crescent, cumulative, incremental), jól menő (prosperous, well-run), gyarapodó, boldoguló. (various references) | |
Italian | fiorente (blooming, flourishing, flowering, prosperous). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 繁盛 (flourishing, prosperity). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | りゅうりゅうたる (brawny, prosperous), りゅうりゅう (bit by bit, flourishing, muscular, prosperous, style, workmanship), はんじょう (flourishing, half mat, heckling, hissing, prosperity, variegated streaks), はんえい (anti-British, flourishing, influence, penumbra, prospering, prosperity, reflection). (various references) | |
Korean | 번창. (various references) | |
Manx | bishagh (betterment, interest payer, rally). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ivingthray.(various references) | |
Romanian | viguros (bouncing, chopping, emphatic, forceful, forcible, forcibly, full-blooded, green, Hale, Hardy, hearty, hot stuff, humming, intense, lusty, nervous, pithy, potent, red blooded, robust, rude, sapful, sinewy, stalwart, stout, stoutly, strapping, strong, strong-limbed, tough, vigorous, vigorously), prosperitate (bonanza, boom, flourish, flourishing, glory, heyday, prosperity, weal, welfare, wellbeing), prosper (bonanza, flourishing, palmy, prosperous, thrifty, wealthy, well to do), norocos (blessed, canny, fluky, fortunate, happy, lucky, prosperous, successful), bunãstare (weal, welfare, wellbeing), belşug (abundance, affluence, amplitude, copiousness, exuberance, exuberancy, flow, galore, luxuriance, opulence, plenty, profusion, riches, store, wealth), înfloritor (blooming, flourishing, lusty, palmy, prosperous, thrifty). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uspešan (advanced, effectual, prosperous, successful), napredan (advanced, flourishing, onward, progressive, prosperous). (various references) | |
Spanish | lozano (buxom, lush, lusty, profuse, rampant, rank). (various references) | |
Swedish | blomstrande (blossoming, florid, flourishing, prosperous). (various references) | |
Turkish | gelişen (booming, Crescent, developing, growing, progressive, rising), başarılı (accomplished, going, going far, prosperous, successful, victorious, well done), büyüyen (expanding, growing, sprawling, yawning). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thịnh vượng lớn mạnh, sự thịnh vượng sự lớn lên, sự phát triển mạnh, sự phát đạt (bonanza, prosperity), sự khoẻ lên, sự giàu có (abundance, opulence, richness, wealth), phát triển mạnh, mau lớn, giàu có (opulent, richly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thriving": thrivingly. (additional references) | |
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"Thriving" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: theiving, thriding, thrvng, toribiong, triving. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thriving" (pronounced thrī"ving) |
| 5 | -r ī" v i ng | depriving, driving, striving. |
| 4 | -ī" v i ng | arriving, conniving, deriving, diving, jiving, reviving, surviving. |
| 3 | -v i ng | approving, absolving, achieving, behaving, believing, braving, calving, caregiving, carving, caving, conceiving, conserving, craving, curving, deceiving, delving, deserving, disapproving, disbelieving, dissolving, earthmoving, engraving, evolving, forgiving, giving, grieving, halving, having, heaving, improving, interleaving, interweaving, involving, leaving, lifesaving, living, loving, misbehaving, misgiving, moving, observing, paving, perceiving, preserving, proving, raving, receiving, relieving, reliving, removing, reserving, resolving, retrieving, revolving, revving, saving, serving, shaving, shelving, shoving, sieving, skydiving, solving, starving, staving, thanksgiving, thieving, unbelieving, undeserving, unforgiving, unnerving, unswerving, waiving, waving, weaving. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-i-n-r-t-v" | |
-2 letters: hiring, hiving, riving, tiring, virgin. | |
-3 letters: girth, grith, iring, night, right, thing. | |
-4 letters: girn, girt, grin, grit, hint, inti, nigh, ring, thin, thir, ting, trig. | |
-5 letters: ghi, gin, git, hin, hit, nit, nth, rig, rin, tin, vig. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-i-n-r-t-v" | |
+2 letters: thrivingly. | |
+4 letters: overlighting, overnighting, overthinking. | |
+5 letters: hypervigilant, overweighting. | |
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