Flourish
To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
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.
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
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.
To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
Decoration; ornament; beauty.
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.
A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
Related Definitions:
About,
Activity,
Admiration,
Adorn,
Ambitious,
Amplification,
An,
And,
Anything,
Artificial,
As,
Be,
Beauty,
Boast,
Bold,
Brag,
Brandish,
Brandishing,
Bravado,
By,
Cal,
Comfort,
Composition,
Condition,
Copiousness,
Decoration,
Decorative,
Desirable,
Develop,
Diction,
Either,
Eloquence,
Embellish,
Embellishment,
Enlarge,
Excite,
Execute,
Expand,
Fanciful,
Fanfare,
Fantastic,
Figure,
Florid,
Flourish,
Flourishing,
Flowery,
Forming,
Grace,
Graceful,
Graver,
Grow,
Growing,
Happiness,
Healthy,
Honor,
In,
Increase,
Indulge,
Irregular,
Is,
Language,
Lofty,
Luxuriantly,
Made,
Make,
Manner,
Merely,
Motion,
Move,
Music,
Musical,
Natural,
Not,
Of,
Off,
Or,
Ornament,
Ornamental,
Ostentation,
Ostentatious,
Other,
Parade,
Part,
Passage,
Pen,
Performed,
Plant,
Play,
Prelude,
Production,
Prominent,
Prosperity,
Prosperous,
Regular,
Rhetoric,
Rhetorical,
Set,
Show,
Showy,
Something,
Specifically,
State,
Strain,
Stroke,
Sweeping,
Swing,
Sword,
The,
Thing,
Thrive,
To,
Triumph,
Use,
Vaunt,
Vaunting,
Vigor,
Wanton,
Waving,
Way,
Wealth,
Weapon,
Whatever,
Wit,
With,
Write
Flourish Quotations
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
Lao Tzu
When schools flourish, all flourishes.
Martin Luther
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Warren G. Bennis
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.
George Crabbe
Flourish Translations
flourish in Dutch is fanfarekorps, fanfare
flourish in Italian is fiorire
flourish in Norwegian is fanfare, snirkel, trives, florere
flourish in Spanish is florecer, abrirse
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
