Bloom vs. Flourish — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bloom and Flourish
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Bloom
A flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty
An exotic bloom
Flourish
To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
The crops flourished in the rich soil.
Bloom
A delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems
The bloom on a plum
Flourish
To do or fare well; prosper
"No village on the railroad failed to flourish" (John Kenneth Galbraith).
Bloom
A full, bright sound in a recording
The remastering has lost some of the bloom of the strings
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Flourish
To be in a period of highest productivity, excellence, or influence
A poet who flourished in the tenth century.
Bloom
A mass of iron, steel, or other metal hammered or rolled into a thick bar for further working
An 18-foot-long steel bloom emerges red-hot from a new reheat furnace
Flourish
To make bold, sweeping movements
The banner flourished in the wind.
Bloom
Produce flowers; be in flower
A chalk pit where cowslips bloomed
Flourish
To wield, wave, or exhibit dramatically.
Bloom
Coat (a lens) with a special surface layer so as to reduce reflection from its surface.
Flourish
A dramatic or stylish movement, as of waving or brandishing
"A few ... musicians embellish their performance with a flourish of the fingers" (Frederick D. Bennett).
Bloom
Make (iron, steel, etc.) into a bloom.
Flourish
An embellishment or ornamentation
A signature with a distinctive flourish.
Bloom
The flower of a plant.
Flourish
An ostentatious act or gesture
A flourish of generosity.
Bloom
Something resembling the flower of a plant
"Her hair was caught all to one side in a great bloom of frizz" (Anne Tyler).
Flourish
(Music) A showy or ceremonious passage, such as a fanfare.
Bloom
The condition of being in flower
A rose in full bloom.
Flourish
(intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
The barley flourished in the warm weather.
Bloom
A condition or time of vigor and beauty; prime
"the radiant bloom of Greek genius" (Edith Hamilton).
Flourish
(intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
The town flourished with the coming of the railway.
The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business.
Bloom
A fresh, rosy complexion
"She was short, plump, and fair, with a fine bloom" (Jane Austen).
Flourish
(intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
His writing flourished before the war.
Bloom
A waxy or powdery whitish to bluish coating on the surface of certain plant parts, as on cabbage leaves or on a plum or grape.
Flourish
(transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
Bloom
A similar coating, as on newly minted coins.
Flourish
(transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace.
The squirrel flourished its fluffy tail about as an alarm signal after its narrow escape from the cat.
Bloom
Grayish blotches or streaks on the surface of chocolate produced by the formation of cocoa butter crystals.
Flourish
(intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
Bloom
(Chemistry) See efflorescence.
Flourish
(intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
Bloom
Glare that is caused by a shiny object reflecting too much light into a camera.
Flourish
(intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
Bloom
A colored area on the surface of a body of water caused by large numbers of phytoplankton, especially cyanobacteria.
Flourish
(transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
Bloom
A bar of steel prepared for rolling.
Flourish
(intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
Bloom
A mass of wrought iron ready for further working.
Flourish
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
Bloom
To bear a flower or flowers.
Flourish
A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.
Bloom
To support plant life in abundance
Rains that made the yard bloom.
Flourish
An ornamentation.
His signature ended with a flourish.
Bloom
To glow; be radiant
"Our summer-gray potbellied stove bloomed rosy red during winter" (Maya Angelou).
Flourish
(music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.
Bloom
To mature or flourish with youth and vigor
Genius blooming under a great teacher.
Flourish
(architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
Bloom
To appear or come into being suddenly
"Her pale shoulders bloomed from the green flounces" (Erin McGraw).
Flourish
To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil.
Bloom
To cause to flourish.
Flourish
To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
When all the workers of iniquity do flourish.
Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness.
We sayOf those that held their heads above the crowd,They flourished then or then.
Bloom
(Obsolete) To cause to flower.
Flourish
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents.
Bloom
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
Flourish
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
Impetuous spreadThe stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
Bloom
(collective) Flowers.
Flourish
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
Bloom
(uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
The cherry trees are in bloom.
Flourish
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
Bloom
(figuratively) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
The bloom of youth
Flourish
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
Bloom
Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
Flourish
To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
Bloom
The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
Flourish
To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
Sith that the justice of your title to himDoth flourish the deceit.
Bloom
Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
Flourish
To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
And flourishes his blade in spite of me.
Bloom
The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
Flourish
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
Bottoms of thread . . . which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.
Bloom
A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
Flourish
A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like.
Bloom
(mineralogy) A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
The rose-red cobalt bloom
Flourish
Decoration; ornament; beauty.
The flourish of his sober youthWas the pride of naked truth.
Bloom
(culinary) A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
Flourish
Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
He lards with flourishes his long harangue.
Bloom
(television) An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
Flourish
A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed.
Bloom
(video games) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
Flourish
A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!
Bloom
The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
Flourish
The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
Bloom
(transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
Flourish
A showy gesture;
She entered with a great flourish
Bloom
(transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
Flourish
An ornamental embellishment in writing
Bloom
(intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
Flourish
A display of ornamental speech or language
Bloom
Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
Flourish
The act of waving
Bloom
(cooking) To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
Flourish
(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments;
He entered to a flourish of trumpets
Her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare
Bloom
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
The rich blooms of the tropics.
Flourish
Grow stronger;
The economy was booming
Bloom
The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.
Flourish
Gain in wealth
Bloom
A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.
Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty.
Flourish
Move or swing back and forth;
She waved her gun
Bloom
The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.
A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it.
Bloom
The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
Bloom
A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
Bloom
A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.
Bloom
A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.
Bloom
To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
A flower which onceIn Paradise, fast by the tree of life,Began to bloom.
Bloom
To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.
A better country blooms to view,
Bloom
To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
Charitable affection bloomed them.
Bloom
To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day.
Bloom
The organic process of bearing flowers;
You will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed
Bloom
Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
Bloom
The best time of youth
Bloom
A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
Bloom
The period of greatest prosperity or productivity
Bloom
A powdery deposit on a surface
Bloom
Produce or yield flowers;
The cherry tree bloomed
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