flourishing
adj. B2 Upper Intermediate US //ˈfɫɝɪʃɪŋ// UK //flˈʌɹɪʃɪŋ// flour·ish·ing
adj. growing or developing very successfully. You use this to describe a person, business, or plant that is healthy and doing well.
adj. thriving, prospering, or developing rapidly and successfully. Often used as a participial adjective to describe economic, social, or biological health.
The city has a flourishing art scene.
After the new trade laws were passed, the small coastal town became a flourishing hub for international commerce.
The discovery of ancient irrigation systems suggests that a flourishing civilization once inhabited this now-arid region, supporting a population much larger than previously estimated.
Usage
Commonly used both attributively before a noun and predicatively after a linking verb like 'is' or 'remains'.