Flourish (IPA: /ˈfɫɝɪʃ/)
| Flourish (v. i.) |
To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. |
| Flourish (v. i.) |
To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production. |
| Flourish (v. i.) |
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. |
| Flourish (v. i.) |
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. |
| Flourish (v. i.) |
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. |
| Flourish (v. i.) |
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. |
| Flourish (v. i.) |
To boast; to vaunt; to brag. |
| Flourish (v. t.) |
To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. |
| Flourish (v. t.) |
To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words. |
| Flourish (v. t.) |
To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish. |
| Flourish (v. t.) |
To develop; to make thrive; to expand. |
| Flourish (n.) |
A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. |
| Flourish (n.) |
Decoration; ornament; beauty. |
| Flourish (n.) |
Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit. |
| Flourish (n.) |
A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. |
| Flourish (n.) |
A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare. |
| Flourish (n.) |
The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword. |
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2006 film |
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Print in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 137039) |
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Print in the National Gallery of Art (NGA 120645) |
| Flourish Synonyms |
Brandish |
| Flourish Synonyms |
Tucket, Fanfare |
| Flourish Synonyms |
Prosper, Expand, Get Ahead, Boom, Thrive |
| Flourish Synonyms |
Wave, Brandish |
| Flourish Synonyms |
Prosper, Fly High, Thrive |
| Spanish Translation |
Flourish in Spanish is Florecer |
| Tagalog Translation |
Flourish in Tagalog is Lumago |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Arms and laws do not flourish together." - Law |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds." - Soul |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Culture can flourish only under the protection of a society with aristocratic characteristics." - Fritz Wotruba |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " It's our right as a sovereign nation to choose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us." - Donald Trump |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed." - Genius |
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