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THRIVING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very lively and profitable
Example:
did a thriving business in orchids
Synonyms:
booming; flourishing; palmy; prospering; prosperous; roaring; thriving
Classified under:
Similar:
successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb thrive
Context examples:
How the emigrants never wrote home, otherwise than cheerfully and hopefully; how Mr. Micawber had actually remitted divers small sums of money, on account of those pecuniary liabilities, in reference to which he had been so business-like as between man and man; how Janet, returning into my aunt's service when she came back to Dover, had finally carried out her renunciation of mankind by entering into wedlock with a thriving tavern-keeper; and how my aunt had finally set her seal on the same great principle, by aiding and abetting the bride, and crowning the marriage-ceremony with her presence; were among our topics—already more or less familiar to me through the letters I had had.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
