Flourish
['flʌrɪʃ] or [ˈflɜːrɪʃ]
Definition
(noun.) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; 'he entered to a flourish of trumpets'; 'her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare'.
(noun.) the act of waving.
(noun.) a display of ornamental speech or language.
(noun.) a showy gesture; 'she entered with a great flourish'.
(noun.) an ornamental embellishment in writing.
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Definition
(v. i.) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
(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.
(v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
(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.
(v. i.) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
(v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
(v. i.) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
(v. t.) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
(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.
(v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
(v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
(n.) A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
(n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty.
(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.
(n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
(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.
(n.) The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
Editor: Will
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Thrive, grow.[2]. Prosper, succeed, be successful, go on well.[3]. Boast, brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade, bluster, make a show, be ostentatious, show off, cut a dash, make a flourish.
v. a. Brandish, wave.
n. [1]. Ostentation, parade, show, display, dash.[2]. Bombast, grandiloquence, flowery speech, high-sounding words.[3]. Fanciful strokes (of a pen, &c.).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prosper, thrive, speed, triumph, brandish, wave
ANT:Fail, fade, decline, miscarry, founder, arrest, sheath, ground
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Definition
v.i. to thrive luxuriantly: to be prosperous: to use copious and flowery language: to move in fantastic figures: to display ostentatiously: (mus.) to play ostentatious passages or ostentatiously: to play a trumpet-call: to make ornamental strokes with the pen: to boast or brag.—v.t. to adorn with flourishes or ornaments: to swing about by way of show or triumph: (Shak.) to gloss over.—n. decoration: showy splendour: a figure made by a bold stroke of the pen: the waving of a weapon or other thing: a parade of words: a musical prelude: a trumpet-call.—adjs. Flour′ished decorated with flourishes; Flour′ishing thriving: prosperous: making a show.—adv. Flour′ishingly.—adj. Flour′ishy abounding in flourishes.—Flourish of trumpets a trumpet-call sounded on the approach of great persons; any ostentatious introduction.
Checker: Pamela
Examples
- The business may still flourish with good management, and the master become as rich as any of the company. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- What will flourish on Rushedge? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To which he added, in a small complicated hand, ending with a long lean flourish, not unlike a lasso thrown at all the rest of the names: Blandois. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The plan will flourish in spite of them, and then they'll be glad to come in. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Her happiness is no object to me, sir,' said Benjamin Allen, with a flourish of the hand. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But he'll flourish here, and everywhere,' said Rigaud, with an exulting look and snap of his fingers. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was undeniably a prosperous man, bore his drinking better than others bore their moderation, and, on the whole, flourished like the green bay-tree. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He flourished back and got his cup and set it down triumphantly, and said: Just try that mixture once, Captain Duncan. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Those fisheries, upon this account, have had all the encouragement which freedom can give them, and they have flourished accordingly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Imported horses were introduced at Buenos Ayres in 1537, and so flourished in the wild state that in 1580 they were found as far south as the Strai t of Magellan. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She told me that these people had presumably flourished over a hundred thousand years before. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- There flourished the first temples and the first priest-rulers that we know of among mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For some time Buddhism flourished in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The opposition has gradually ceased, and the Franklinian system is now universally adopted where science flourishes. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There were no flourishes, but the individual letters would not bear close inspection. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But upon my soul I can't make flourishes, and I would rather be disappointed than try. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I found that the vertical style, with each letter separate and without any flourishes, was the most rapid, and that the smaller the letter the greater the rapidity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is the soil in which invention flourishes and the organized knowledge of science attains its greatest reality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And with that he made his heavy halberd to play around his head as a shepherd boy flourishes his light crook. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It is in communities like this that Jesuit humbuggery flourishes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His loss is deeply felt in the flourishing colony. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As it was, you would have fancied he was a flourishing, large parson of the Church of England. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- One of his most intimate friends was a merchant, who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The ribbon, flourishing in puffs and bows about the head, was of the sort called love-ribbon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Feudalism in its most flourishing age was anything but systematic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such people there are living and flourishing in the world--Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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