FLOURISHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flourishing mean? 

• FLOURISHING (adjective)
  The adjective FLOURISHING has 1 sense:

1. very lively and profitable

  Familiarity information: FLOURISHING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOURISHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very lively and profitable

Synonyms:

booming; flourishing; palmy; prospering; prosperous; roaring; thriving

Context example:

did a thriving business in orchids

Similar:

successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)

 Context examples 

The normal human gut microbiome is a flourishing community of microorganisms, some of which can affect the human immune system.

(Disrupting the gut microbiome may affect some immune responses to flu vaccination, National Institutes of Health)

One of his most intimate friends was a merchant who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I admire them much more if they are tall, straight, and flourishing.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The Kanaka leaped backward to his bunk, to return with a second leap, flourishing a long knife.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The change in the ivory trade coincides with the flourishing of the Norse settlements on Greenland.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

I had confidence, however, in my own youth and energy, and was convinced that in a very few years the concern would be as flourishing as ever.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bitter check had wrung from me some tears; and now, as I sat poring over the crabbed characters and flourishing tropes of an Indian scribe, my eyes filled again.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was a tall, handsome, swarthy fellow, clad in a suit of grey flannel, with a Panama hat, a bristling black beard, and a great, aggressive hooked nose, and flourishing a cane as he walked.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He can sit down and write a fine flourishing letter, full of professions and falsehoods, and persuade himself that he has hit upon the very best method in the world of preserving peace at home and preventing his father's having any right to complain.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"Oh dear, we are growing up with a vengeance. Here's Meg married and a mamma, Amy flourishing away at Paris, and Beth in love. I'm the only one that has sense enough to keep out of mischief."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)