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thriving

[thrahy-ving]

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adjective

prospering or doing well; highly successful.
The Arts Commission plans to expand its thriving ArtSmart program into all 21 of the city’s elementary schools.
growing or developing vigorously; flourishing.
When I worked on her farm ten years ago there was still a thriving goat herd, but she’s been unable to keep it up on her own.

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Other Word Forms

thrivingly adverb
unthriving adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of thriving¹

thriv(e) ( def. ) + -ing ² ( def. )

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I thought about a Guatemalan, a father of three young American-born children, who has a thriving business hauling junk.

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"I would hope she would now be thriving and learning, living life to the full," says Sandra.

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Wiles lurks in the shadows, thriving in the gray mist of the White House.

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The Greenwood Trust borrows its name from Tulsa's Greenwood District, a once-prosperous black neighbourhood with an economy so thriving that it was dubbed Black Wall Street.

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“Just about everybody evacuated San Francisco. Now it’s thriving again.”

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