Flourish vs. Evolve — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Flourish and Evolve
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Flourish
To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
The crops flourished in the rich soil.
Evolve
To develop or achieve gradually
Evolve a style of one's own.
Flourish
To do or fare well; prosper
"No village on the railroad failed to flourish" (John Kenneth Galbraith).
Evolve
To work (something) out; devise
"the schemes he evolved to line his purse" (S.J. Perelman).
Flourish
To be in a period of highest productivity, excellence, or influence
A poet who flourished in the tenth century.
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Evolve
(Biology) To develop (a characteristic) by evolutionary processes.
Flourish
To make bold, sweeping movements
The banner flourished in the wind.
Evolve
To give off; emit.
Flourish
To wield, wave, or exhibit dramatically.
Evolve
To undergo gradual change; develop
An amateur acting group that evolved into a theatrical company.
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).
Evolve
(Biology) To arise or transform through evolutionary processes.
Flourish
An embellishment or ornamentation
A signature with a distinctive flourish.
Evolve
To move in regular procession through a system.
Flourish
An ostentatious act or gesture
A flourish of generosity.
Evolve
(intransitive) To change; transform.
What began as a few lines of code has now evolved into a million-line behemoth.
Flourish
(Music) A showy or ceremonious passage, such as a fanfare.
Evolve
To come into being; develop.
Flourish
(intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
The barley flourished in the warm weather.
Evolve
(biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
A hundred thousand years from now, will Homo sapiens have evolved into beings unrecognisable to their ancestors?
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.
Evolve
(intransitive) Of a trait, to develop within a population via biological evolution.
How long ago did beaks evolve?
Flourish
(intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
His writing flourished before the war.
Evolve
(transitive) Of a population, to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
How long ago did birds evolve beaks?
Flourish
(transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
Evolve
(chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
To evolve odours
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.
Evolve
(transitive) To cause something to change or transform.
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.
Evolve
To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.
The principles which art involves, science alone evolves.
Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
Flourish
(intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
Evolve
To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.
Flourish
(intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
Evolve
To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution.
Flourish
(transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
Evolve
Work out;
We have developed a new theory of evolution
Flourish
(intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
Evolve
Undergo development or evolution;
Modern man evolved a long time ago
Flourish
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
Evolve
Gain through experience;
I acquired a strong aversion to television
Children must develop a sense of right and wrong
Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position
Develop a passion for painting
Flourish
A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.
Flourish
An ornamentation.
His signature ended with a flourish.
Flourish
(music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.
Flourish
(architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
Flourish
To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil.
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.
Flourish
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents.
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.
Flourish
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
Flourish
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
Flourish
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
Flourish
To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
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.
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.
Flourish
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
Bottoms of thread . . . which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.
Flourish
A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like.
Flourish
Decoration; ornament; beauty.
The flourish of his sober youthWas the pride of naked truth.
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.
Flourish
A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed.
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!
Flourish
The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
Flourish
A showy gesture;
She entered with a great flourish
Flourish
An ornamental embellishment in writing
Flourish
A display of ornamental speech or language
Flourish
The act of waving
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
Flourish
Grow stronger;
The economy was booming
Flourish
Gain in wealth
Flourish
Move or swing back and forth;
She waved her gun
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