Synonyms for flourish
ˈflɜr ɪʃ, ˈflʌr-flour·ish

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.4 / 5 votes

1. flourish

   Ostentation is an ambitious showing forth of whatever is thought adapted to win admiration or praise; ostentation may be without words; as, the ostentation of wealth in fine residences, rich clothing, costly equipage, or the like; when in words, ostentation is rather in manner than in direct statement; as, the ostentation of learning. Boasting is in direct statement, and is louder and more vulgar than ostentation. There may be great display or show with little substance; ostentation suggests something substantial to be shown. Pageant, pageantry, parade, and pomp refer principally to affairs of arms or state; as, a royal pageant; a military parade. Pomp is some material demonstration of wealth and power, as in grand and stately ceremonial, rich furnishings, processions, etc., considered as worthy of the person or occasion in whose behalf it is manifested; pomp is the noble side of that which as ostentation is considered as arrogant and vain. Pageant and pageantry are inferior to pomp, denoting spectacular display designed to impress the public mind, and since the multitude is largely ignorant and thoughtless, the words pageant and pageantry have a suggestion of the transient and unsubstantial. Parade (Latin paro, prepare) is an exhibition as of troops in camp going through the evolutions that are to be used in battle, and suggests a lack of earnestness and direct or immediate occasion or demand; hence, in the more general sense, a parade is an uncalled for exhibition, and so used is a more disparaging word than ostentation; ostentation may spring merely from undue self-gratulation, parade implies a desire to impress others with a sense of one's abilities or resources, and is always offensive and somewhat contemptible; as, a parade of wealth or learning. Pomposity and pompousness are the affectation of pomp.

   Synonyms:
   boast, boasting, display, ostentation, pageant, pageantry, parade, pomp, pomposity, pompousness, show, vaunt, vaunting

   Antonyms:
   diffidence, modesty, quietness, reserve, retirement, shrinking, timidity, unobtrusiveness

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. flourish

   Synonyms:
   prosper, thrive, speed, triumph, brandish, wave

   Antonyms:
   fail, fade, decline, miscarry, founder, arrest, sheath, ground

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. flourishnoun

   a showy gesture

   "she entered with a great flourish"

   Synonyms:
   tucket, fanfare, brandish

2. flourishnoun

   an ornamental embellishment in writing

   Synonyms:
   tucket, fanfare, brandish

3. flourishnoun

   a display of ornamental speech or language

   Synonyms:
   tucket, fanfare, brandish

4. flourish, brandishnoun

   the act of waving

   Synonyms:
   tucket, fanfare, brandish

5. flourish, fanfare, tucketverb

   (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments

   "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"

   Synonyms:
   flash, tucket, fanfare, brandish, ostentation

6. boom, thrive, flourish, expandverb

   grow vigorously

   "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming"

   Synonyms:
   elaborate, wave, fly high, expound, exposit, spread out, blast, amplify, lucubrate, blow up, thrive, din, extend, inflate, expatiate, nail, brandish, flesh out, dilate, thunder, boom, enlarge, prosper, expand, boom out, smash

7. thrive, prosper, fly high, flourishverb

   make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance

   "The new student is thriving"

   Synonyms:
   wave, brandish, prosper, fly high, thrive, boom, expand

8. brandish, flourish, waveverb

   move or swing back and forth

   "She waved her gun"

   Synonyms:
   roll, brandish, prosper, fly high, thrive, flap, undulate, wave, beckon, expand, boom, curl

Matched Categories

1. • Change State
   • Embellishment
   • Gesture
   • Grandiosity
   • Grow
   • Move
   • Wave

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. flourishverb

   Synonyms:
   thrive, grow

2. flourishverb

   Synonyms:
   prosper, succeed, be successful, go on well

3. flourishverb

   Synonyms:
   boast, brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade, bluster, make a show, be ostentatious, show off, cut a dash, make a flourish

4. flourishverb

   Synonyms:
   brandish, wave

5. flourishnoun

   Synonyms:
   ostentation, parade, show, display, dash

6. flourishnoun

   Synonyms:
   bombast, grandiloquence, flowery speech, high-sounding words

7. flourishnoun

   Synonyms:
   fanciful strokes (of a pen, &c.)

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1. flourishnoun

   Synonyms:
   embellishment, curlycue, paraph, fanfare, call, parade, show, display, brandishing, waving

2. flourishverb

   Synonyms:
   thrive, wave, brandish

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "flourish":

   prosper, thrive, blossom, flourish, bloom, grow

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1. John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

   Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

2. Gavin Gibbons:

   It's not only disturbing, it's disheartening because our companies have zero tolerance for labor abuses, these type of things flourish in the shadows.

3. Gavin Gibbons:

   '' But these type of things flourish in the shadows.

4. Steve Maraboli:

   Love in its most genuine sense, can only flourish if it is FREE. We, as people, can only flourish if we are free."

5. Christian Stefansen:

   We're hoping for a bit of creativity to flourish around this, there's no shortage of communicable diseases, sadly.