flourishing

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flourishing

The small town's main street is full of flourishing businesses.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Growing or developing in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly favorable environment or set of conditions. This is the core meaning, describing something that is thriving, successful, and prospering.
    • Characterized by lively and profitable activity. This sense emphasizes economic or commercial success and energetic growth.
Examples of Usage
  • Adjective:
    • The city's flourishing arts scene attracts visitors from around the world.
    • After years of careful investment, the company is now a flourishing enterprise.
    • She has a flourishing career in scientific research.
Advanced Usage
  • "to be flourishing": to be in a state of vigorous growth and success.
    • The community garden is flourishing thanks to the volunteers' hard work.
  • Used to describe abstract concepts like cultures, traditions, or ideas.
    • During the Renaissance, art and learning were flourishing.
Variants and Related Words
  • Flourish (verb): to grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way.
    • The plants flourish in direct sunlight.
  • Flourishingly (adverb): in a flourishing manner. (Less common)
    • The business continued flourishingly for decades.
Synonyms
  • Thriving: growing or developing well or vigorously.
  • Prosperous: successful in material terms; flourishing financially.
  • Booming: having a period of great prosperity or rapid economic growth.
  • Burgeoning: beginning to grow or increase rapidly; flourishing.
Antonyms
  • Declining: becoming smaller, fewer, or less; decreasing.
  • Failing: not achieving the desired success; declining.
  • Withering: becoming dry and shriveled; (figuratively) declining or deteriorating.
Related Phrases
  • In full flourish: at the peak of success, growth, or development.
    • The artist's career was in full flourish during that decade.
  • Flourish like a green bay tree: (idiomatic, somewhat literary) to prosper greatly and conspicuously.
    • With the new contract, his business began to flourish like a green bay tree.
flourishing

The small town's main street is full of flourishing businesses.

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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