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say it: THRAHY-ving
thriving is an adjective meaning "very lively and profitable". It is pronounced /ˈθɹaɪvɪŋ/ — THRAHY-ving. It carries one recorded sense.
very lively and profitable
“flourishing businesses”
“a palmy time for stockbrokers”
“a prosperous new business”
“doing a roaring trade”
“a thriving tourist center”
“did a thriving business in orchids”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thriving come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.