1. Grow vigorously
   - boom, thrive, expand 
2. Make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
   - thrive, prosper, fly high 
3. Move or swing back and forth
   - brandish, wave

1. A showy gesture
   "she entered with a great flourish" 
2. An ornamental embellishment in writing 
3. A display of ornamental speech or language 
4. The act of waving
   - brandish 
5. (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
   "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"
   - fanfare, tucket

Derived forms: flourished, flourishing, flourishes

Type of: air, change state, displace, embellishment, gesture, grandiloquence, grandiosity, grow, line, magniloquence, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, motion, move, ornateness, rhetoric, strain, tune, turn, wafture, wave, waving

Encyclopedia: Flourish

• unfeelingness
• unfeigned
• unfeignedly
• unfeminine
• unfenced
• unfermented
• unfertile
• unfertilised
• unfertilized
• unfetter
• unfettered
• unfilial
• unfilled
• unfilmed
• unfinished
• unfinished business
• unfirm
• unfit
• unfitness
• unfitting
• unfix
• unfixed
• unflagging
• unflaggingly
• unflappability