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| Main Entry: | flourishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prospering, going well |
| Synonyms: | blooming, exuberant, growing, lush, luxuriant, profuse, prosperous, rampant, rank, rich, robust, successful, thriving, vigorous, burgeoning, doing well, expanding, going strong, in full swing, in the pink, in top form, mushrooming, roaring |
| Antonyms: | failing, languishing, stunted, ceasing, decreasing, undeveloping |
| Main Entry: | flourish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow, prosper |
| Synonyms: | amplify, arrive, augment, batten, bloom, blossom, boom, burgeon, come along, develop, expand, flower, get ahead, get on*, go, increase, make out*, multiply, score, succeed, thrive, wax, be on top of heap, bear fruit, do well, go great guns, hit it big, live high on hog |
| Antonyms: | cease, fail, hinder, languish, stunt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flourish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wave about |
| Synonyms: | brandish, display, flaunt, flutter, shake, sweep, swing, swish, twirl, vaunt, wag, wield |
| Main Entry: | bloom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flower |
| Synonyms: | blossom, blossoming, bud, efflorescence, flourishing, flower, opening, floret, floweret |
| Main Entry: | fortunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having good luck |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, affluent, auspicious, blessed, bright, charmed, convenient, encouraging, favorable, favored, felicitous, flourishing, fortuitous, golden, happy, healthy, helpful, hopeful, lucky, on a roll*, opportune, profitable, promising, propitious, prosperous, rosy, sitting pretty, successful, thriving, timely, triumphant, victorious, wealthy, well-off, well-to-do, born with a silver spoon, gaining, get a break, in luck, in the gravy, overcoming, providential, sunny side |
| Notes: | fortunate means having unexpected good fortune or luck; fortuitous means happening by chance or coming or occurring by accident or without any known cause |
| Antonyms: | adverse, sad, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, upset |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fruitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, advantageous, beneficial, blooming, blossoming, breeding, conducive, copious, effective, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, gainful, plentiful, profitable, profuse, prolific, rewarding, rich, successful, useful, worthwhile, childing, fructiferous, plenteous, proliferant, propagating, reproducing, spawning, well-spent |
| Antonyms: | barren, impotent, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | hale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strong and healthy |
| Synonyms: | able-bodied, blooming, fit, flourishing, healthy, hearty, husky, right, robust, sane, sound, stout, strapping, strong, trim, vigorous, well, wholesome, alive and kicking, fit as a fiddle, in fine fettle, in the pink, well-conditioned |
| Antonyms: | sick, unhealthy, weak |
| Main Entry: | lush |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse and delightful |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ambrosial, delectable, delicious, deluxe, dense, elaborate, extensive, extravagant, exuberant, flourishing, fresh, grand, green, heavenly, juicy, lavish, luscious, luxuriant, luxurious, opulent, ornate, overgrown, palatial, plush, prodigal, prolific, rank, rich, riotous, ripe, ritzy, scrumptious, sensuous, succulent, sumptuous, teeming, tender, verdant, voluptuous |
| Antonyms: | austere, bare, barren, sparse |
| Main Entry: | luxuriant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse, plush |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ample, copious, deluxe, dense, elaborate, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fecund, fertile, flamboyant, flourishing, fruitful, lavish, luscious, lush, opulent, overflowing, palatial, plentiful, prodigal, productive, prolific, rampant, rank, rich, riotous, sumptuous, teeming, thriving, plenteous, profusive, superabundant |
| Antonyms: | barren, plain, poor |
| Main Entry: | robust |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthy, strong |
| Synonyms: | able-bodied, athletic, boisterous, brawny, built, concentrated, fit, flourishing, full-bodied, hale, hardy, hearty, hefty, husky, live, lusty, muscular, peppy, potent, powerful, prosperous, rough, rugged, sinewy, snappy, sound, stout, strapping, sturdy, thriving, tiger*, tough, vigorous, vital, well, wicked*, zippy*, booming, fit as fiddle, in fine fettle, in good health, in good shape, in the pink, powerhouse, prospering, roaring, robustious, robustuous, zappy |
| Antonyms: | flabby, infirm, soft, unhealthy, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sturdy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | solid, durable |
| Synonyms: | athletic, bulky, determined, firm, flourishing, hardy, hearty, hefty, hulking, husky, lusty, muscular, powerful, resolute, robust, rugged, secure, sound, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, stiff, stout, stouthearted, strapping, strong, strong-arm*, substantial, tenacious, tough, unyielding, vigorous, well-made, built to last, powerhouse, well-built |
| Antonyms: | unstable, weak, wobbly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | successful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | favorable, profitable |
| Synonyms: | acknowledged, advantageous, auspicious, blooming, blossoming, champion, efficacious, extraordinary, flourishing, fortuitous, fortunate, fruitful, happy, lucky, lucrative, moneymaking, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, prosperous, rewarding, rolling, strong, thriving, top, triumphant, unbeaten, undefeated, victorious, wealthy, ahead of the game, at the top, at top of ladder, bestselling, booming, crowned, on track, out in front, paying |
| Antonyms: | losing, unfavorable, unprofitable, unsuccessful, forfeiting |
| Main Entry: | thriving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | successful |
| Synonyms: | blooming, cooking*, flourishing, growing, healthy, prolific, prosperous, rich, robust, rolling*, sitting pretty*, wealthy, advancing, arrived, booming, burgeoning, developing, doing well, going strong, have it made, have the wherewithal, home free, on top of heap, progressing, prospering, roaring |
| Antonyms: | failing, languishing, losing, declining |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | verdant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | green, blooming |
| Synonyms: | flourishing, fresh, grassy, leafy, lush, verdurous |
| Antonyms: | dying |
| Main Entry: | vigorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | energetic, powerful |
| Synonyms: | active, athletic, brisk, dashing, driving, dynamic, effective, efficient, enterprising, exuberant, flourishing, forceful, forcible, hale, hardy, healthy, hearty, intense, lively, lusty, mettlesome, peppy, persuasive, potent, robust, rugged, snappy, sound, spanking, spirited, steamroller, strapping, strenuous, strong, sturdy, tough, vital, zealous, zippy*, ball of fire, bouncing, hard-driving, red-blooded*, strong as an ox, take-charge, take-over |
| Antonyms: | enervated, idle, impotent, inactive, lethargic, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | well-off |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | successful, wealthy |
| Synonyms: | affluent, comfortable, easy, flourishing, flush, fortunate, loaded, lucky, moneyed, prosperous, rich, snug, substantial, thriving, well, well-to-do |
| Antonyms: | destitute, failing, poor, unsuccessful |
| Main Entry: | well-to-do |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-off |
| Synonyms: | affluent, comfortable, flourishing, loaded, moneyed, prosperous, rich, snug, successful, wealthy, rolling in it, set for life |
| Main Entry: | blossoming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blooming |
| Synonyms: | bloom, budding, flourishing, flowering, thriving, developing |
| Antonyms: | withering |
| Main Entry: | florescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flowering |
| Synonyms: | blossoming, development, flourishing |
| Main Entry: | growing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | increasing |
| Synonyms: | animate, budding, crescent, enlarging, flourishing, living, maturing, spreading, swelling, thriving, viable, amplifying, augmenting, burgeoning, crescive, developing, dilating, expanding, fructifying, germinating, mushrooming, pullulating, sprouting, stretching, waxing |
| Antonyms: | lessening, shrinking, withering |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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