What are some opposite words for flourish?

Antonyms for flourish
ˈflɜr ɪʃ, ˈflʌr-flour·ish

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.4 / 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 Antonyms3.3 / 3 votes

  1. flourish

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

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

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 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 Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. flourishnoun

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

  2. flourishverb

    Synonyms:
    thrive, wave, brandish

Editors Contribution5.0 / 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. Victor Hugo:

    Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

  2. Ben Cavender:

    The brand — and the heritage that the brand has — it's really impossible to replicate that, somebody can't set up a new venture tomorrow and do what they can do. It's not sort of possible to go back in time and get Mao Zedong to be interested in your drink. It's not possible to sort of be located in the town where they make their products. So I think they have a strong built-in story that allows them to flourish.

  3. Steve Maraboli:

    Love in its most genuine sense, can only flourish if it is FREE. We, as people, can only flourish if we are free."

  4. David Bedey:

    Spirited debate and the free expression of ideas cannot flourish in an atmosphere of turmoil and instability, what is at stake is the expectation that any member of this body, whoever that might be, has a duty to strive to maintain decorum so that the people’s work, the work of all Montanans, can be accomplished.

  5. 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.

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