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THRIVING

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very lively and profitableplay

Example:

did a thriving business in orchids

Synonyms:

booming; flourishing; palmy; prospering; prosperous; roaring; thriving

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb thrive

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 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)




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