prosperous
/prosperous/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Financially successful; thriving: Describes a state of economic well-being, wealth, or success in material terms.
- Favorable; conducive to success: Indicates conditions that are advantageous and likely to lead to good fortune or positive outcomes.
- Flourishing; marked by vigorous growth and activity: Refers to a period or state of lively, profitable, and successful operation.
Examples of Usage
- Describing financial success:
- The family built a prosperous business over three generations.
- After years of hard work, they finally became prosperous.
- Describing favorable conditions:
- The prosperous winds allowed the ship to arrive ahead of schedule.
- It was a prosperous time to invest in new technology.
- Describing a flourishing state:
- The town grew into a prosperous commercial center.
- We are living in a prosperous era of innovation.
Advanced Usage
- "to do a prosperous trade": to engage in very successful and profitable business.
- The company did a prosperous trade in exports last year.
- Used in formal or literary contexts to describe a golden age or halcyon days.
- The historian wrote about the prosperous reign of the emperor.
Variants and Related Words
- Prosperity (n): the state of being prosperous.
- Economic prosperity benefits the entire community.
- Prosper (v): to be successful, especially financially; to thrive.
- May your new venture prosper.
Synonyms
- Thriving: growing or developing vigorously and successfully.
- Flourishing: developing rapidly and successfully.
- Wealthy: having a great deal of money or assets.
- Affluent: having a great deal of money; wealthy.
- Booming: having a period of great prosperity or rapid economic growth.
Antonyms
- Impoverished: reduced to poverty.
- Declining: becoming smaller, fewer, or less; decreasing.
- Unsuccessful: not achieving or not having achieved success.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- To live in prosperous times: to live during a period of economic success and general well-being.
- Our grandparents often spoke of living in prosperous times before the war.
- A prosperous venture: a business undertaking that is successful.
- Their partnership turned out to be a prosperous venture.
Adjective
- presaging or likely to bring good luck
- a favorable time to ask for a raise
- lucky stars
- a prosperous moment to make a decision
- marked by peace and prosperity
- a golden era
- the halcyon days of the clipper trade
- 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
- in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
- they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards
- easy living
- a prosperous family
- his family is well-situated financially
- well-to-do members of the community