Antonyms for flourish
ˈflɜr ɪʃ, ˈflʌr-flour·ish

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.4 / 5 votes

1. flourish

   Ostentation is an ambitious showing forth of whatever is thought adapted to win admiration or praise; ostentation may be without words; as, the ostentation of wealth in fine residences, rich clothing, costly equipage, or the like; when in words, ostentation is rather in manner than in direct statement; as, the ostentation of learning. Boasting is in direct statement, and is louder and more vulgar than ostentation. There may be great display or show with little substance; ostentation suggests something substantial to be shown. Pageant, pageantry, parade, and pomp refer principally to affairs of arms or state; as, a royal pageant; a military parade. Pomp is some material demonstration of wealth and power, as in grand and stately ceremonial, rich furnishings, processions, etc., considered as worthy of the person or occasion in whose behalf it is manifested; pomp is the noble side of that which as ostentation is considered as arrogant and vain. Pageant and pageantry are inferior to pomp, denoting spectacular display designed to impress the public mind, and since the multitude is largely ignorant and thoughtless, the words pageant and pageantry have a suggestion of the transient and unsubstantial. Parade (Latin paro, prepare) is an exhibition as of troops in camp going through the evolutions that are to be used in battle, and suggests a lack of earnestness and direct or immediate occasion or demand; hence, in the more general sense, a parade is an uncalled for exhibition, and so used is a more disparaging word than ostentation; ostentation may spring merely from undue self-gratulation, parade implies a desire to impress others with a sense of one's abilities or resources, and is always offensive and somewhat contemptible; as, a parade of wealth or learning. Pomposity and pompousness are the affectation of pomp.

   Antonyms:
   diffidence, modesty, quietness, reserve, retirement, shrinking, timidity, unobtrusiveness

   Synonyms:
   boast, boasting, display, ostentation, pageant, pageantry, parade, pomp, pomposity, pompousness, show, vaunt, vaunting

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. flourish

   Antonyms:
   fail, fade, decline, miscarry, founder, arrest, sheath, ground

   Synonyms:
   prosper, thrive, speed, triumph, brandish, wave

Matched Categories

1. • Change State
   • Embellishment
   • Gesture
   • Grandiosity
   • Grow
   • Move
   • Wave

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. flourishnoun

   a showy gesture

   "she entered with a great flourish"

   Synonyms:
   tucket, fanfare, brandish

2. flourishnoun

   an ornamental embellishment in writing

   Synonyms:
   tucket, fanfare, brandish

3. flourishnoun

   a display of ornamental speech or language

   Synonyms:
   tucket, fanfare, brandish

4. flourish, brandishnoun

   the act of waving

   Synonyms:
   tucket, fanfare, brandish

5. flourish, fanfare, tucketverb

   (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments

   "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"

   Synonyms:
   flash, tucket, fanfare, brandish, ostentation

6. boom, thrive, flourish, expandverb

   grow vigorously

   "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming"

   Synonyms:
   elaborate, wave, fly high, expound, exposit, spread out, blast, amplify, lucubrate, blow up, thrive, din, extend, inflate, expatiate, nail, brandish, flesh out, dilate, thunder, boom, enlarge, prosper, expand, boom out, smash

7. thrive, prosper, fly high, flourishverb

   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 thriving"

   Synonyms:
   wave, brandish, prosper, fly high, thrive, boom, expand

8. brandish, flourish, waveverb

   move or swing back and forth

   "She waved her gun"

   Synonyms:
   roll, brandish, prosper, fly high, thrive, flap, undulate, wave, beckon, expand, boom, curl

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flourishnoun

   Synonyms:
   embellishment, curlycue, paraph, fanfare, call, parade, show, display, brandishing, waving

2. flourishverb

   Synonyms:
   thrive, wave, brandish

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. withering

   the flowers are withering in the shade.

   Submitted by JP03 on October 30, 2014  

How to use flourish in a sentence?

1. Gavin Gibbons:

   '' But these type of things flourish in the shadows.

2. Warren Bennis:

   There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

3. Macneile Dixon:

   Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

4. Jennifer Pizer:

   [W]e are witness yet again to the unrelenting anti-LGBTQ crusade being waged by self-described Christian fundamentalist legal groups aiming to chip away at the hard-won gains of LGBTQ people by carving out swaths of territory where discrimination can flourish, the constitutional protections for religious freedom and free speech were never intended as weapons of discrimination for those doing business with the general public.

5. Leslie Jordan:

   Give me a good pandemic, honey, and I flourish.

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