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PROSPEROUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome
Example:
a prosperous moment to make a decision
Synonyms:
favorable; favourable; golden; lucky; prosperous
Classified under:
Similar:
propitious (presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by peace and prosperity
Example:
the halcyon days of the clipper trade
Synonyms:
golden; halcyon; prosperous
Classified under:
Similar:
happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)
Sense 3
Meaning:
In fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
Example:
well-to-do members of the community
Synonyms:
comfortable; easy; prosperous; well-fixed; well-heeled; well-off; well-situated; well-to-do
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
rich (possessing material wealth)
Derivation:
prosperity (the condition of prospering; having good fortune)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Very lively and profitable
Example:
did a thriving business in orchids
Synonyms:
booming; flourishing; palmy; prospering; prosperous; roaring; thriving
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)
Derivation:
prosperity (an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment)
Context examples:
She would soon be well, and happy, and prosperous.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Also, having got the agency for a low-grade make of wheel, he was prosperous.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
My uncle engaged afterwards in more prosperous undertakings: it appears he realised a fortune of twenty thousand pounds.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She could not consider her partiality for Edward in so prosperous a state as Marianne had believed it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He says he feels as if he 'could make a prosperous voyage now with me aboard as mate, and lots of love for ballast'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
His name was Evans, but he afterwards changed it, like myself, and he is now a rich and prosperous man in the south of England.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
March 11 will be another one of your best days of the month, for it will have good-fortune Jupiter reaching out to the mighty Sun ensuring any collaboration you make, in love or business, to be prosperous and joyous.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It was fairly prosperous.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Because he exercised headcraft and not witchcraft, he rose from the meanest igloo to be head man of his village, and through all the years that he lived, it is related, his tribe was prosperous, and neither widow nor weak one cried aloud in the night because there was no meat.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature, but I was wretched, helpless, and alone.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
