thriving
Other forms: thrivingly
Something that's thriving is doing very well. You have a thriving cupcake business if you can hardly bake enough to keep up with your customers' orders.
Use the adjective thriving to describe something that's healthy — like your new puppy — or profitable and busy — like your dad's car dealership. A thriving Mexican food truck always has a long line in front of it, and a thriving publisher puts out many popular books. Thriving comes from the verb thrive, and its Old Norse root word, þrifask, which means both "thrive" and "grasp to oneself," from þrifa, "to clutch or grasp."
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very lively and profitable“a thriving tourist center”“did a thriving business in orchids”synonyms: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaringsuccessfulhaving succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome
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This memoir describes how Kamkwamba, who grew up in a small Malawian village, built a windmill to bring electricity to his family's home.
President Obama delivered the annual State of the Union Address on January 12, 2016. The State of the Union is always a speech that covers a wide variety of topics, but for this particular speech, President Obama cast an especially wide net. The address focused on the future of the country -- out beyond his last year in office to the challenges the next president faces. Here are 25 words from President Obama's last State of the Union. A transcript of the entire speech is available here.
Torn between love and duty, Ethan Frome struggles to find a way to follow his heart in this haunting American classic. Read the etext here.