All languish antonyms
lan·guish
L l verb languish
- thrive — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
- grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
- hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- despise — If you despise something or someone, you dislike them and have a very low opinion of them.
- improve — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- delight — Delight is a feeling of very great pleasure.
- develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
- rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
- flourish — to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.