| Main Entry: | flower |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bloom of a plant |
Synonyms: |
annual, blossom, bud, cluster, efflorescence, floret, floweret, head, herb, inflorescence, perennial, pompon, posy, shoot, spike, spray, vine |
| Main Entry: | flower |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | best, choicest part |
Synonyms: |
cream, elite, finest point, freshness, greatest point, height, pick, pride, prime, prize, top |
Antonyms: |
worst |
| Main Entry: | flower |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bloom, flourish |
Synonyms: |
batten, blossom, blow, burgeon, effloresce, mature, open, outbloom, prosper, thrive, unfold |
Antonyms: |
close, die, droop, fade, sag, shrink, shrivel |
| Main Entry: | best |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | most outstanding thing in class |
Synonyms: |
choice, cream, cream of the crop, elite, fat, favorite, finest, first, flower, gem, model, nonpareil, paragon, pick, prime, prize, select, top |
Antonyms: |
worst |
| Main Entry: | bloom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flower |
Synonyms: |
blossom, blossoming, bud, efflorescence, floret, flourishing, flower, floweret, opening |
| Main Entry: | boom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prosper |
Synonyms: |
appreciate, bloom, develop, enhance, expand, flourish, flower, gain, grow, increase, intensify, rise in value, spurt, strengthen, succeed, swell, thrive |
Antonyms: |
collapse, fail, falter, lose |
| Main Entry: | cream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the best |
Synonyms: |
choice, crème de la crème, elite, fat, favorite, finest, flower, pick, pride, prime*, prize, skim, top |
Antonyms: |
worst |
| Main Entry: | elite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high-class persons |
Synonyms: |
aristocracy, beautiful people, best, blue blood, carriage trade, celebrity, choice, country club set, cream, crowd, crème de la crème, elect, establishment, fast lane, fat*, flower, gentility, gentry, glitterati, high society, in-crowd, jet-set, main line, nobility, old money, optimacy, pride, prime, prize, quality, select, society, top, upper class, upper crust |
Antonyms: |
commonality, low-life, lower class, ordinary |
| Main Entry: | figure of speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turn of expression |
Synonyms: |
adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, comparison, conceit, device, echoism, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche, trope, tropology, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking |
| Main Entry: | flourish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow, prosper |
Synonyms: |
amplify, arrive, augment, batten, be on top of heap, bear fruit, bloom, blossom, boom, burgeon, come along, develop, do well, expand, flower, get ahead, get on, go, go great guns, hit it big, increase, live high on hog, make out, multiply, score, succeed, thrive, wax |
Antonyms: |
cease, fail, hinder, languish, stunt |