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1. Very lively and profitable
   "flourishing businesses"
   - booming, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving

1. Grow vigorously
   "business is flourishing"
   - boom, thrive, expand
    
2. 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 flourishing"
   - thrive, prosper, fly high, flower, bloom
    
3. Move or swing back and forth
   "She flourished her gun"
   - brandish, wave

See also: successful

Type of: change state, displace, grow, move, turn

Encyclopedia: Flourish