THRIVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thriving mean? 

• THRIVING (adjective)
  The adjective THRIVING has 1 sense:

1. very lively and profitable

  Familiarity information: THRIVING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRIVING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very lively and profitable

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

did a thriving business in orchids

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

They modelled a variety of possible exoplanets, and were able to define which exoplanet types stand the best chance of developing and sustaining thriving biospheres.

(Some Exoplanets May Have Greater Variety of Life than Exists on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He was a great deal too full of the market to think of any thing else—which is just as it should be, for a thriving man.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving trade on the weekdays.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“A prosperous voyage out, a thriving career abroad, and a happy return home!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yes, Miss: my wife is very hearty, thank you; she brought me another little one about two months since—we have three now—and both mother and child are thriving.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Still others - California's Lake Tahoe, for example - support thriving tourism industries.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)

Merlin Burrows CEO Bruce Blackburn says his company used satellite data to comb an area that the group believed may have been the location of the thriving city.

(Researchers Claim to Have Found Mythical City of Atlantis in Spain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Ending overfishing is a quick, deliverable action which will restore fish populations, create more resilient ocean ecosystems, decrease CO2 pollution and increase carbon capture, and deliver more profitable fisheries and thriving coastal communities.

(Oceans running out of oxygen at unprecedented rate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He cut out the work again overnight and found it done in the morning, as before; and so it went on for some time: what was got ready in the evening was always done by daybreak, and the good man soon became thriving and well off again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was indeed a stricken and a blighted country, and a man might have ridden from Auvergne in the north to the marches of Foix, nor ever seen a smiling village or a thriving homestead.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)