Synonyms for thriving
- adjective
Most common
flourishing prosperous successful booming fertile productive
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Flourishing
flourishing, prosperous, successful, booming, burgeoning, roaring, blooming, fortunate, palmy, thrifty dated
2. Fertile
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
That thrives; successful; flourishing or prospering.
Example sentences
- successful Do you think the campaign was successful in Italy?
- prosperous Algeria is a prosperous country full of potential.
- booming The cellar-door flew open with a booming sound.
- flourishing This old trade is still flourishing in Algiers.
- buoyant How can ships be buoyant when not even rocks are?
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| thriving | rising | |
| successful | steady | |
| prosperous | steady | |
| booming | rising | |
| flourishing | steady | |
| buoyant | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- palmy
- 7 letters
- fertile2, roaring2, booming2, buoyant2, thrifty2
- 8 letters
- blooming2, fruitful2
- 9 letters
- fortunate3
- 10 letters
- successful3, productive3, prosperous3, burgeoning3
- 11 letters
- flourishing3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fertile2 = 2 syllables).