- flourish - a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
--1 is a kind of gesture, motion
- flourish - an ornamental embellishment in writing
--2 is a kind of embellishment
--2 has particulars: paraph- flourish - a display of ornamental speech or language
--3 is a kind of grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric
- flourish, brandish - the act of waving
--4 is a kind of wave, waving, wafture
Derived form: verb flourish3 - flourish, fanfare, tucket - (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
--5 is a kind of tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase
- flourish - an ornamental embellishment in writing
- boom, prosper, thrive, get ahead, flourish, expand - grow stronger; "The economy was booming"
--1 is one way to grow
Sample sentence:
The business is going to flourish
- thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish - gain in wealth
--2 is one way to change state, turn
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- brandish, flourish, wave - move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"
--3 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun flourish4
Somebody ----s something