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flourishing::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | booming, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
flourishing businesses.
Examples of flourishing
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Both the Pineapple and Big Top were flourishing enterprises when he bought them.
From the dailymercury.com.au
The business is undoubtedly flourishing whilst others of its type are faltering.
From the getreading.co.uk
One of the most uplifting plants is comfrey, now flourishing after a wet season.
From the washingtonpost.com
By 2000, the state was flourishing, thanks largely to a boom in technology jobs.
From the denverpost.com
Fast-forward five decades and a new generation of Grandma Moses are flourishing.
From the independent.co.uk
But the same is true of the Netherlands, and the Dutch Wikipedia is flourishing.
From the economist.com
Thousand of workers, the canuts, devoted themselves to the flourishing industry.
From the en.wikipedia.org
One of the sources of recent flourishing of rabies in East Asia is the pet boom.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It points to a deeper way of flourishing and a different definition of success.
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- Booming: 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"
- (flourish) a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
- (flourish) boom: grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming"
- (flourish) an ornamental embellishment in writing
- (flourish) thrive: make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance; "The new student is thriving"
- (flourish) a display of ornamental speech or language
- (Flourish (fanfare)) Ruffles and flourishes are preceding fanfare for ceremonial music for distinguished people.
- (Flourish (film)) Flourish (2008) is a film written, produced and directed by Kevin Palys and starring Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Leighton Meester and Ian Brennan (writer).
- (Flourish (juggling)) A flourish is a juggling club trick in which the performer spins the club around his fingers. The club actually makes two revolutions around its center of gravity, once on the medial side of the juggler's hand and once on the lateral side.
