flourishing
flour·ish·ing/ˈflɝɪʃɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb
flourishing is an adjective meaning “Growing, thriving, prospering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-U-R-I-S-H-I-N-G and has 3 syllables (flour·ish·ing), and it appears 1.9 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does flourishing mean?
adjective
- 1
Growing, thriving, prospering.
a flourishing economy
noun
- 1
An act or instance of thriving or flowering.
- 2
A bold, sweeping movement.
- 3
A period of greatest influence.
- 4
A boasting or bragging.
- 5
The brandishing of a weapon.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of flourish
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flourishing?
- US /ˈflɝɪʃɪŋ/
- UK /ˈflʌɹɪʃɪŋ/
Flourishing has 3 syllables, split flour·ish·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-flourishing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flourishing
- more flourishing comparative
- most flourishing superlative
- flourishings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flourishing?
Flourishing appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 19,825th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Flourishing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense growing, thriving:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | blühend |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.