Clues for the word "FLOURISH"
We've had 13 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 18 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on November 19, 2024.
Definition of flourish
- v. i. - To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
- v. i. - To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
- v. i. - To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
- v. i. - To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- v. i. - To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
- v. i. - To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- v. i. - To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
- v. t. - To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- v. t. - To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
- v. t. - To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
- v. t. - To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- n. - A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
- n. - Decoration; ornament; beauty.
- n. - Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
- n. - A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
- n. - A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
- n. - The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
Referring Clues
- "Ta-da!," e.g.
- Thrive
- Be healthy, like a type of meal?
- Prosper - like Dusty Miller?
- Thrive on fine meal, his cooking
- Succeed, like something powdery?
- School member admits dirty look and gesture
- Fellow takes on 50 frenzied houris -- what a gesture!
- Do very well where main ingredient in bread is heroin
- Student comes in about teatime with a showy gesture
- Display angry look when tucking into seafood
- Prosper
- Prosper - like Dusty Miller?
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - November 19, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 19, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - November 19, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - November 19, 2017
- Netword - August 13, 2017
- Guardian Quick - March 20, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - November 01, 2013
- Guardian Quiptic - July 02, 2012
- New York Times - December 06, 2011
- Guardian Prize - November 13, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - October 12, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - January 12, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - January 09, 2009
- New York Times - June 29, 2006
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 22, 2004
- Washington Post - June 12, 2004
- Washington Post - February 03, 2001
- Guardian Quiptic - July 03, 2000