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Flourish vs Booming - What's the difference?

flourish | booming |

As verbs the difference between flourish and booming

is that flourish is to thrive or grow well while booming is .

As nouns the difference between flourish and booming

is that flourish is a dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag while booming is the act of producing a hollow or roaring sound.

As an adjective booming is

experiencing a period of prosperity, or rapid economic growth.

flourish

English

Verb

(es)
  • To thrive or grow well.
  • *
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
  • To prosper or fare well.
  • * Nelson
    • Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish , and that by the means of their wickedness.
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  • To be in a period of greatest influence.
  • To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Bottoms of thread which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.
  • To make bold, sweeping movements with.
  • To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
  • To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
  • * J. Watts
    • They dilate and flourish long on little incidents.
  • To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
  • To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
    • (Fenton)
    (Shakespeare)
  • To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
  • (obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
    • (Alexander Pope)

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (es)
  • A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
    • With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.
  • An ornamentation.
    • His signature ended with a flourish .
  • (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
    • The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.
  • (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.

    • References

    * English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs

    booming

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Experiencing a period of prosperity, or rapid economic growth.
    • The power of China's booming economy continues to stun the world.
  • Loud and resonant.
    • He was asked to be MC at the function on account of his booming voice.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound.
  • * Felicia Hemans
    • Heavy boomings of a dull deep bell.