What are the opposite words for flourish?
Antonyms for the word "flourish" are words that are opposite in meaning. Some of the antonyms for "flourish" include struggle, wither, decline, weaken, fade, fail, languish, and suffer. While "flourish" implies a thriving and successful state, its antonyms suggest a diminishing or deteriorating condition. For instance, a business may flourish when it enjoys booming sales, rising profits, and expanding operations, while it may struggle or decline when it faces financial difficulties, declining demand, and shrinking revenues. Similarly, a plant may flourish when it grows vigorously, produces vibrant flowers, and bears abundant fruit, while it may wither or fade when it lacks adequate sunlight, water, or nutrients.
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disintegrate
- break apart,
- come apart,
- take apart,
- taking apart,
- wash away,
- wash out,
- washing away,
- falling to pieces,
- brake apart,
- breaking apart,
- breaks apart,
- broke apart,
- came apart,
- comes apart,
- coming apart,
- de scend,
- de scended,
- de scending,
- de scends,
- de tach,
- de taches,
- de-scend,
- de-scended,
- de-scending,
- de-scends,
- de-tach,
- de-taches,
- dis band,
- dis banded,
- dis banding,
- dis bands,
- dis connect,
- dis connected,
- dis connecting,
- dis connects,
- dis integrate,
- dis integrated,
- dis integrates,
- dis integrating,
- dis mantle,
- dis mantled,
- dis mantles,
- dis mantling,
- dis organize,
- dis organized,
- dis organizes,
- dis organizing,
- dis perse,
- dis unite,
- dis united,
- dis unites,
- dis uniting,
- dis-band,
- dis-banded,
- dis-banding,
- dis-bands,
- dis-connect,
- dis-connected,
- dis-connecting,
- dis-connects,
- dis-integrate,
- dis-integrated,
- dis-integrates,
- dis-integrating,
- dis-mantle,
- dis-mantled,
- dis-mantles,
- dis-mantling,
- dis-organize,
- dis-organized,
- dis-organizes,
- dis-organizing,
- dis-perse,
- dis-unite,
- dis-united,
- dis-unites,
- dis-uniting,
- fall pieces,
- fall to pieces,
- falls pieces,
- fell pieces,
- fell to pieces,
- takes apart,
- took apart,
- turn dust,
- turn to dust,
- turned to dust,
- turning dust,
- turning to dust,
- turns dust,
- washed away,
- washed out,
- washes out,
- washing out.
-
deteriorate
- sink.
-
dirty
- begrime,
- begrimed,
- blotched,
- encrust,
- encrusted,
- muddied,
- smoking,
- tar,
- Begriming,
- Muddying,
- Tarred,
- Tarring,
- Smutching,
- Tars,
- muddies,
- grimed,
- griming,
- blotching,
- besoil,
- make impure,
- be grime,
- be grimed,
- be grimes,
- be griming,
- be soil,
- be soiled,
- be soiling,
- be soils,
- be-grime,
- be-grimed,
- be-grimes,
- be-griming,
- be-soil,
- be-soiled,
- be-soiling,
- be-soils,
- begrimes,
- besoiled,
- besoiling,
- besoils,
- encrusts,
- made dusty,
- made impure,
- make dusty,
- makes dusty,
- making dusty,
- making impure.
-
die
- break down,
- dilapidate,
- ease off,
- fade away,
- fade out,
- fading away,
- fizzle out,
- peter out,
- recede,
- run low,
- Demised,
- Demising,
- Dilapidating,
- dilapidates,
- slackens,
- rest in peace,
- melt away,
- be no more,
- cease to exist,
- running low,
- running out,
- breaking down,
- breathe one's last,
- am no more,
- am taken,
- are taken,
- art no more,
- art taken,
- be taken,
- being no more,
- being taken,
- brake down,
- breaks down,
- breathe last,
- breathe one last,
- breathe ones last,
- breathed last,
- breathed one last,
- breathed one's last,
- breathed ones last,
- breathes last,
- breathes one last,
- breathes one's last,
- breathes ones last,
- breathing last,
- breathing one last,
- breathing one's last,
- breathing ones last,
- broke down,
- cease exist,
- ceased exist,
- ceased to exist,
- ceases exist,
- ceases to exist,
- ceasing exist,
- ceasing to exist,
- de cease,
- de ceased,
- de ceases,
- de ceasing,
- de mise,
- de mises,
- de part,
- de parted,
- de parting,
- de parts,
- de-cease,
- de-ceased,
- de-ceases,
- de-ceasing,
- de-mise,
- de-mises,
- de-part,
- de-parted,
- de-parting,
- de-parts,
- dis appear,
- dis appeared,
- dis appearing,
- dis appears,
- dis-appear,
- dis-appeared,
- dis-appearing,
- dis-appears,
- eased off,
- eases off,
- easing off,
- ex pire,
- ex-pire,
- faded away,
- faded out,
- fades away,
- fades out,
- fading out,
- fizzled out,
- fizzles out,
- fizzling out,
- gave ghost,
- gave the ghost,
- gave up ghost,
- gave up the ghost,
- give ghost,
- give the ghost,
- give up ghost,
- give up the ghost,
- gives ghost,
- gives the ghost,
- gives up the ghost,
- giving ghost,
- giving up ghost,
- giving up the ghost,
- go way flesh,
- go way of all flesh,
- go way of flesh,
- goes way all flesh,
- goes way flesh,
- goes way of all flesh,
- goes way of flesh,
- going way flesh,
- going way of all flesh,
- is no more,
- is taken,
- kick bucket,
- lose power,
- loses power,
- losing power,
- lost power,
- melted away,
- melting away,
- melts away,
- petering out,
- ran low,
- re cede,
- re ceded,
- relinquish life,
- relinquishes life,
- relinquishing life,
- rest peace,
- rested in peace,
- rested peace,
- resting in peace,
- resting peace,
- rests in peace,
- rests peace,
- retro-grade,
- runs low,
- sub-side,
- sub-sided,
- was taken,
- wast no more,
- wast taken,
- went way all flesh,
- went way flesh,
- went way of all flesh,
- went way of flesh,
- were no more,
- were taken,
- wert taken.
- stagnate
-
bite
- eat into,
- wearing away,
- ate in to,
- ate into,
- de compose,
- de composed,
- de composes,
- de composing,
- de-compose,
- de-composed,
- de-composes,
- de-composing,
- dis solve,
- dis solved,
- dis solves,
- dis solving,
- dis-solve,
- dis-solved,
- dis-solves,
- dis-solving,
- eat in to,
- eating in to,
- eating into,
- eats in to,
- eats into.
-
corrupt
- Illtreat,
- DE Form,
- de base,
- de based,
- de basing,
- de face,
- de faced,
- de faces,
- de facing,
- de file,
- de filed,
- de files,
- de filing,
- de formed,
- de forming,
- de forms,
- de grade,
- de graded,
- de grades,
- de grading,
- de mean,
- de meaning,
- de means,
- de moralize,
- de moralized,
- de moralizes,
- de moralizing,
- de spoil,
- de spoiled,
- de spoiling,
- de spoils,
- de-base,
- de-based,
- de-basing,
- de-face,
- de-faced,
- de-faces,
- de-facing,
- de-file,
- de-filed,
- de-files,
- de-filing,
- de-form,
- de-formed,
- de-forming,
- de-forms,
- de-grade,
- de-graded,
- de-grades,
- de-grading,
- de-mean,
- de-meaning,
- de-means,
- de-moralize,
- de-moralized,
- de-moralizes,
- de-moralizing,
- de-spoil,
- de-spoiled,
- de-spoiling,
- de-spoils,
- dis figure,
- dis figured,
- dis figures,
- dis figuring,
- dis grace,
- dis graced,
- dis graces,
- dis gracing,
- dis honor,
- dis honored,
- dis honoring,
- dis honors,
- dis-figure,
- dis-figured,
- dis-figures,
- dis-figuring,
- dis-grace,
- dis-graced,
- dis-graces,
- dis-gracing,
- dis-honor,
- dis-honored,
- dis-honoring,
- dis-honors,
- grease palm,
- greased palm,
- greases palm,
- greasing palm,
- mis treat,
- mis treated,
- mis treating,
- mis treats,
- mis used,
- mis using,
- mis-treat,
- mis-treated,
- mis-treats,
- mis-used,
- mis-using,
- out raged,
- out rages,
- out-rage,
- out-raged,
- out-rages,
- out-raging,
- re duce,
- re duces,
- re-duce,
- re-duces,
- under mined,
- under mining,
- under-mined,
- under-mining.
-
decline
- Disimprove,
- Retrograded,
- Retrograding,
- Re-turn,
- go to pot,
- went downhill,
- goes downhill,
- go downhill,
- going downhill,
- retrogrades,
- going to pot,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de creased,
- de creasing,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- de-creased,
- de-creasing,
- dis improve,
- dis improved,
- dis improves,
- dis improving,
- dis-improve,
- dis-improved,
- dis-improves,
- dis-improving,
- disimproved,
- disimproves,
- disimproving,
- goes pot,
- goes to pot,
- going pot,
- losing value,
- lost value,
- re cedes,
- re ceding,
- re lapse,
- re lapsed,
- re lapses,
- re lapsing,
- re turn,
- re turning,
- re turns,
- re-cede,
- re-ceded,
- re-cedes,
- re-ceding,
- re-lapse,
- re-lapsed,
- re-lapses,
- re-lapsing,
- re-turned,
- re-turning,
- re-turns,
- retro grade,
- retro graded,
- retro grades,
- retro grading,
- retro-graded,
- retro-grades,
- retro-grading,
- sub side,
- sub sided,
- sub sides,
- sub-sides,
- went pot,
- went to pot.
- fester
-
languish
- conk out,
- fag,
- fag out,
- fagged,
- tucker,
- yearn,
- Fagging,
- Hungered,
- Hungering,
- tuckers,
- tuckering,
- FAGS,
- conked out,
- am disregarded,
- am neglected,
- are disregarded,
- art neglected,
- be disregarded,
- be neglected,
- being disregarded,
- being neglected,
- conking out,
- conks out,
- de sire,
- de sired,
- de sires,
- de siring,
- de-sire,
- de-sired,
- de-sires,
- de-siring,
- die on vine,
- die vine,
- died on vine,
- died vine,
- dieing on vine,
- dieing vine,
- dies on vine,
- dies vine,
- dying on vine,
- dying vine,
- fagged out,
- fagging out,
- fags out,
- go pieces,
- go soft,
- goes soft,
- going soft,
- is disregarded,
- is neglected,
- on vine,
- re pine,
- re pined,
- re-pine,
- re-pined,
- re-pines,
- re-pining,
- was disregarded,
- was neglected,
- wast disregarded,
- wast neglected,
- went soft,
- were disregarded,
- were neglected,
- wert disregarded,
- wert neglected.
- rot
-
decay
- atrophied,
- curdled,
- curdling,
- get worse,
- go bad,
- pollute,
- Mildewed,
- Mildewing,
- Perished,
- Waned,
- Putresce,
- dry rot,
- go to the dogs,
- got worse,
- gotten worse,
- gets worse,
- atrophying,
- getting worse,
- waste away,
- wasted away,
- am impaired,
- are impaired,
- art impaired,
- be impaired,
- became contaminated,
- become contaminated,
- becomes contaminated,
- becoming contaminated,
- being impaired,
- de generate,
- de generated,
- de generates,
- de generating,
- de-generate,
- de-generated,
- de-generates,
- de-generating,
- dis color,
- dis colored,
- dis coloring,
- dis colors,
- dis-color,
- dis-colored,
- dis-coloring,
- dis-colors,
- disco loring,
- disco-loring,
- dry rots,
- dry rotted,
- dry rotting,
- dry-rot,
- dry-rots,
- dry-rotted,
- dry-rotting,
- dryrot,
- dryrots,
- dryrotted,
- dryrotting,
- gat worse,
- go dogs,
- go seed,
- go the dogs,
- go to dogs,
- go to seed,
- goes bad,
- goes dogs,
- goes seed,
- goes the dogs,
- goes to dogs,
- goes to seed,
- goes to the dogs,
- going bad,
- going dogs,
- going seed,
- going the dogs,
- going to dogs,
- going to seed,
- going to the dogs,
- hit rock bottom,
- hit skids,
- hit the skids,
- hits rock bottom,
- hits skids,
- hits the skids,
- hitting rock bottom,
- hitting skids,
- hitting the skids,
- is impaired,
- pejorate,
- pejorated,
- pejorates,
- pejorating,
- putresced,
- putresces,
- putrescing,
- reach depths,
- reached depths,
- reaches depths,
- reaching depths,
- was impaired,
- wast impaired,
- wastes away,
- went bad,
- went dogs,
- went seed,
- went the dogs,
- went to dogs,
- went to seed,
- went to the dogs,
- were impaired,
- wert impaired,
- caries,
- gangrene,
- putridity,
- spoilation,
- wasting away,
- Gangrenes,
- failings,
- crumblings,
- de cadence,
- de cadences,
- de cay,
- de cays,
- de composition,
- de compositions,
- de crease,
- de creases,
- de generation,
- de generations,
- de-cadence,
- de-cadences,
- de-cay,
- de-cays,
- de-composition,
- de-compositions,
- de-crease,
- de-creases,
- de-generation,
- de-generations,
- dis integration,
- dis integrations,
- dis repair,
- dis repairs,
- dis solution,
- dis solutions,
- dis-integration,
- dis-integrations,
- dis-repair,
- dis-repairs,
- dis-solution,
- dis-solutions,
- dyings,
- fadings,
- perishings,
- putridities,
- rottings,
- spoilations,
- wasting aways,
- wastings,
- witherings.
-
ebb
- die down,
- die out,
- downed,
- downing,
- died down,
- dies down,
- dying down,
- OUTS,
- Downs,
- outed,
- died out,
- dieing down,
- dieing out,
- dies out,
- dying out,
- falls away,
- fell away,
- flowed back,
- flowing back,
- flows back,
- re tire,
- re tired,
- re tires,
- re tiring,
- re treating,
- re treats,
- re-tire,
- re-tiring,
- re-treat,
- re-treated,
- re-treating,
- re-treats,
- retro cede,
- retro cedes,
- retro ceding,
- retro-cedes,
- retro-ceding,
- with draw,
- with drawing,
- with drawn,
- with draws,
- with drew,
- with-draw,
- with-drawing,
- with-drawn,
- with-drew.
-
taint
- Trashed,
- be smirch,
- be smirched,
- be smirches,
- be smirching,
- be-smirch,
- be-smirched,
- be-smirches,
- be-smirching,
- cast a slur,
- cast slur,
- casting a slur,
- casting slur,
- casts a slur,
- casts slur,
- co oked,
- co oking,
- co-oked,
- co-oking,
- crud up,
- crudded up,
- crudding up,
- cruds up,
- dis credit,
- dis credited,
- dis crediting,
- dis credits,
- dis-credit,
- dis-credited,
- dis-crediting,
- dis-credits,
- gave a bad name,
- give a bad name,
- give bad name,
- gives a bad name,
- gives bad name,
- giving a bad name.
- turn
- vegetate
- wither
-
corrode, eat away
- bite.
- pervert; pollute
- lessen, become less
-
pass away; stop living
- die.
- cause to be soiled
- fall apart; reduce to pieces
-
erode, wear away; use up
- eat.
-
subside; decline
- ebb.
- intensify; become inflamed
- grow, prosper
- wave about
- droop; become dull, listless
-
corrode, deteriorate
- rot.
- deteriorate by lack of action
- dirty, contaminate; ruin
-
become sour or tainted
- turn.
- be very passive
- droop, decline
- breaking down, collapse
- Other relevant words
Antonym of the day
most elbow-to-elbow
- Antonyms:
- deserted, empty, imprecise.
