flourish /flurˈish/

1. To grow luxuriantly
2. To thrive
3. To be in full vigour
4. To be prosperous
5. To use copious and flowery language
6. To move in fantastic patterns
7. To display ostentatiously
8. To play or sing ostentatious passages, or ostentatiously (music)
9. To play a fanfare
10. To make ornamental strokes with the pen
11. To show off
12. To bloom (obsolete and Scot)

1. To adorn with fantastic patterns or ornaments
2. To make attractive (Shakespeare)
3. To brandish in show, triumph or exuberance of spirits

1. Showy splendour
2. A figure made by a bold stroke of the pen
3. The waving of a weapon or other object
4. A flowery passage of words
5. A showy, fantastic or highly ornamental passage of music
6. A mass of blossom on a fruit tree (dialect)
7. Decoration (obsolete)

flourˈished adjective

Decorated with flourishes

flourˈisher noun

flourˈishing adjective

1. Thriving
2. Prosperous
3. Making a flourish

flourˈishingly adverb

flourˈishy adjective

Full of flourishes

flourishing thread noun

Thread used in ornamental needlework

flourish of trumpets noun

1. A fanfare heralding an important person or people
2. Any ostentatious introduction

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