Prosperous

Definition: Prosperous

Prosperous

Adjective

1. 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".

2. 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".

3. Marked by peace and prosperity; "a golden era"; "the halcyon days of the clipper trade".

4. Tending to favor or bring good luck; "miracles are auspicious accidents"; "encouraging omens"; "a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prosperous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Etymology: Prosperous \Pros"per*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression prosperus or prosper, originally, answering to hope; pro according to the root of sperare to hope. See Despair.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Prosperous

Prosperity

Verb: prosper, thrive, flourish; be prosperous; Adjective: drive a roaring trade, do a booming business; go on well, go on smoothly, go on swimmingly; sail before the wind, swim with the tide; run smooth, run smoothly, run on all fours.

Adjective: prosperous; thriving; Verb: in a fair way, buoyant; well off, well to do, well to do in the world; set up, at one's ease; rich; in good case; in full, in high feather; fortunate, lucky, in luck; born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star; on the sunny side of the hedge.

Success

Adjective: succeeding; Verb: successful; prosperous; triumphant; flushed with success, crowned with success; victorious, on top; set up; in the ascendant; unbeaten; (see beat; Verb:); well-spent; felicitous, effective, in full swing.

Crosswords: Prosperous

What, me pick up a check for a prosperous lawyer? (The Big Valley; writing credit: Jean-Claude Carrière)

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Rich and Prosperous (1964)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life (reference)

• Going Out On Top : The Easy-To-Understand Guide for a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous Retirement (reference)

• Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy: How Civic Entrepreneurs Are Building Prosperous Communities (Josse Bass Public Administration Series) (reference)

• The Debt-FREE & Prosperous Living Basic Course (reference)

• The Debt-Free and Prosperous Living Basic Course/Book&4 Cassettes (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Debt Free & Prosperous Living (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Beethoven: Mass in C / Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 / Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage (reference)

• Prosperous [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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An independent farmer and landowner in the foothills of the Ozarks, near Damascus, Arkansas, who is prosperous in normal time, but now "on the Red Cross". Credit: Library of Congress.

View of Chaneysville, Pennsylvania, once prosperous farming and lumbering community, now abandoned. Credit: Library of Congress.

Church once supported by a prosperous congregation now abandoned, because the population moved out as a result of depletion of lumber and soil. Chaneysville, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

A church built when the Berkshire highlands were prosperous farming lands. Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress.

Baker, Florida. Main street. Once a prosperous town, when lumber was booming, turpentine flowing, and the land still rich for farming. Today it is another forgotten town. Credit: Library of Congress.

On the outskirts of town to the west is the prosperous residential district. Holyoke, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress.

House of Lawrence Furbura, a Bohemian farmer near Diagonal, Iowa. He rents the farm from his father. There is a Bohemian colony in this vicinity which is inhabited by the most prosperous farmers in Ringgold County, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

An abandoned house in Mansfield, Michigan, formerly a prosperous mining town. Credit: Library of Congress.

Abandoned "temperance hall" in the formerly prosperous mining community of Mansfield, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dillon, Montana. Street corner. Dillon is the trading center for a prosperous cattle and sheep country. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It could have been prevented in my belief without the firing of a single shot, and Germany might be powerful, prosperous and honored to-day; but no one would listen and one by one we were all sucked into the awful whirlpool. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I do not look upon myself as either prosperous or indulged.

While Fantine had been slowly sinking deeper and deeper into misery, her native village had been prosperous.

I shall not trouble the reader with a particular account of this voyage, which was very prosperous for the most part.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The cost of these programs prohibits their full implementation in much of the developing world, and in even the most prosperous countries the cost of an effective dog rabies control program is a drain on public health resources. (references)

Business

Now, the UAE is a prosperous country of global economic significance. (references)

It is potentially one of Africa's most prosperous economies, but war has damaged its social and physical infrastructure. (references)

Industrial workers average three to four times the minimum wage, earning more at bigger, more advanced and prosperous enterprises. (references)

Children

Pakistan

Even in relatively prosperous Karachi, enrollment figures are low. (references)

Burma

Increasingly, only relatively prosperous families are able to afford to send their children to school, even at the primary level. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

Makati City is the central business area in the country and the most prosperous of the Metro Manila suburbs. (references)

Minorities

Togo

The Ewe and Mina are the largest ethnic groups in the southern region, where abundant rainfall and access to the sea have been conducive to farming and trade; the Kabye are the largest group in the drier, landlocked, less populous, and less prosperous northern region. (references)

Burma

Both groups have tended to be more commercially oriented and hence more prosperous and economically powerful than Burmans; however, such commercial success has caused resentment among the Burman majority. (references)

Kenya

The Kikuyu and the closely related Kamba, Meru, and Embu groups make up more than one-third of the country's population; members of these groups also dominate much of private commerce and industry and have tended to support opposition parties since they were legalized in 1992. The Kikuyu, the largest, best-educated, and most prosperous ethnic group, dominated the country under its first president, Jomo Kenyatta, a Kikuyu. (references)

Political Economy

NETHERLANDS

The Netherlands is a prosperous and open economy, which depends heavily on foreign trade. (references)

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the most prosperous emirates, contribute the largest shares. (references)

Luxembourg

Luxembourg, with a population of approximately 443,000, has a prosperous market economy with active industrial and service sectors. (references)

Trade

Australia

Like other prosperous countries, Australia has a large pool of private funding available for debt financing of projects. (references)

Travel

Switzerland

As a prosperous, highly developed Western democracy with a modern market economy, Switzerland's business customs and practices are akin to those of other northern European countries. (references)

Switzerland

Switzerland is a stable, prosperous democracy with a low rate of violent crime. (references)

Worker Rights

Yugoslavia

In certain areas of the country, such as the Sandzak and the town of Cacak, there were many prosperous small businesses dealing in unlicensed items for export. (references)

Mexico

Few workers (approximately 16 percent) earn only the minimum wage; most workers earn more than the minimum wage, and industrial workers average three to four times the minimum wage, earning more at larger, more advanced, and prosperous enterprises. (references)

Nigeria

Traffickers take advantage of a cultural tradition of "fostering," under which it is acceptable to send a child to live and work with a more prosperous family in an urban center in return for educational and vocational advancement. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression using "prosperous": prosperous man. Additional references.

Beginning with "prosperous": prosperous-looking.

Ending with "prosperous": newly-prosperous, none-too-prosperous, once-prosperous, over-prosperous.

Albanian

i suksesshëm (made, successful), i lulëzuar (flourishing, flowering, palmy, thriving), i begatë (affluent, flourishing, flush, fulsome, luxuriant, palmy, thrifty, wealthy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزدهر (flourishing, flowered, palmy, prospering, thrifty, thriving), ‏مؤات (advantageous, fair, favorable, favourable, friendly, happy, kindly, lucky, opportune, propitious, ripe), ‏ناجح (coming, effective, felicitous, infallible, succeeded, successful), ‏ثري (fat, moneyed, opulent, plushy, posh, privileged, rich, substantial, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well to do), ‏رابح (lucrative, pay). (various references)

Bulgarian 

напредващ (forward, rising), благоприятен (advantageous, conducive, favorable, favourable, large, merciful, opportune, propitious, sympathetic, toward), благоденствуващ (affluent, flourishing), процъфтяващ (thrifty), преуспял (made, successful), попътен (fair, favorable, favourable, following, large, wayside). (various references)

Chinese 

隆重 (ceremonious, grand, solemn), 隆 (grand, intense, sound of drums, start), 興旺 (thriving, to flourish, to prosper), 繁榮 (booming), 熙 (splendid), 亨 , 旺 (flourishing, to flourish, to prosper), 昌盛 , 昌 (flourish), 兴旺 (Boomed, Booming, thrive, Thrived, Thriven, thriving, uptick), 勃 (abruptly, flourishing, suddenly), 富裕 (well-off, well-to-do). (various references)

Czech

prosperující (well doing), příznivý (auspicious, beneficial, benign, fair, favorable, favourable, hopeful, hospitable, promising, propitiatory, propitious), úspìšný (fruitful, successful). (various references)

Danish

Medlemsstater,der er mere velstaaende end gennemsnittet,skulle yde et stoerre bidrag,medens mindre velstaaende medlemsstater skulle have lempeligere vilkaar (those Member States with an above-average wealth would have an increased requirement for revenue contributions whereas less prosperous Member States would be relieved), de mindst velstående lande (the least prosperous countries), de mest velstillede regioner (the most prosperous regions). (various references)

Dutch

de welvarendste regio's (the most prosperous regions), de minst welvarende landen (the least prosperous countries), de Lid-Staten met een meer dan gemiddelde welvaart moeten een grotere inkomstenbijdrage leveren en de minder welvarende Lid-Staten een kleinere (those Member States with an above-average wealth would have an increased requirement for revenue contributions whereas less prosperous Member States would be relieved). (various references)

Farsi 

موفق (Lucrative, Upbeat), کامیاب (Palmy), کامکار. (various references)

Finnish

hyvinvoipa (well-to-do). (various references)

French

prospère, florissant, favorable (propitious). (various references)

German

erfolgreich (fruitful, fruitfully, prosperously, successful, successfully, triumphant), glücklich (blessed, by luck, felicitous, felicitously, fortunate, golden, happily, happy, lucky, palmy, providential, serendipitous, through luck). (various references)

Greek 

επιτυχημένοσ, ευδαίμων, ευδοκιμών (thrifty, thriver). (various references)

Hebrew 

מש�'ש�' (blooming, efflorescent, flourishing, on velvet, palmy, proliferating), עוש�" חיל (successful). (various references)

Hungarian

sikeres (auspicious, be a success, he will go places, successful), virágzó (abloom, blooming, flourishing, flowering, flowery, full blown, full-blown, palmy, prime, thriving), jól menő (thriving, well-run), előnyös (advantageous, becoming, beneficial, fat, favorable, favourable, profitable, remunerative). (various references)

Italian

prospero (bonanza, palmy), fiorente (blooming, flourishing, flowering, thriving), favorevole (bonanza, fair, Favor, favorable, favour, favourable, fortunate, kindly, partial, positive). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

盛大 (grand, magnificent). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さか�" (field officer, plasterer, popularity), せい� い (fairness, grand, justice, magnificent, magnificent imperial reign, prosperous era), �"うつう (communication, doing well, intercourse, traffic, transportation), りゅうりゅうたる (brawny, thriving), りゅうりゅう (bit by bit, flourishing, muscular, style, thriving, workmanship). (various references)

Korean 

번성하�". (various references)

Manx

speeideilagh (successful), raahagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

osperouspray

Portuguese

propício (advantageous, auspicious, convenient, favourable, friendly, handy, lucky, opportune, propitious), prometedor (promising), próspero (auspicious, bonanza, flourishing, golden, moneymaking, palmy, successful, thrifty, well-off, well-to-do), florescente (abloom, blooming, flourishing, flowering, palmy, thrifty), feliz (blissful, carefree, felicitous, fortunate, gay, glad, gladsome, happy, joyous, lucky, merry, palmy, providential, successful), favorável (advantageous, auspicious, benign, benignant, bright, favorable, favourable, fortunate, friendly, propitious), auspicioso (auspicious). (various references)

Romanian

prosper (bonanza, flourishing, palmy, thrifty, thriving, wealthy, well to do), norocos (blessed, canny, fluky, fortunate, happy, lucky, successful, thriving), care are succes, avut (had, moneyed, pecunious, propertied, rich, wealthy, well off, well to do), înfloritor (blooming, flourishing, lusty, palmy, thrifty, thriving). (various references)

Russian 

удачливый (fortunate, lucky, successful), состоятельный (opulent, podded, substantial, wealthy, well fixed, well off, well to do, well-to-do). (various references)

Scottish

soimeach, � ghmhor (lucky). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uspešan (advanced, effectual, successful, thriving), napredan (advanced, flourishing, onward, progressive, thriving). (various references)

Spanish

próspero (auspicious, booming, flourishing, going, palmy, successful, thrifty). (various references)

Swedish

gynnsam (advantageous, auspicious, benign, favorable, favourable, friendly, genial, happy), blomstrande (blossoming, florid, flourishing, thriving). (various references)

Turkish

zengin (affluent, bonanza, fertile, generous, in the chips, in the money, moneyed, opulent, propertied, rich, wealthy, well heeled, well-endowed), yolunda (alright, in the groove, in the wake of, on foot, on track, right, swimmingly), uygun (acceptable, accommodating, adaptable, adequate, advisable, agreeable, allowable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, comely, commensurate, comparative, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, convenient, cool, correct, decent, done, due, eligible, enjoyable, equal, expedient, fair, fair enough, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fine, fit, fitted, fitting, for, in place, keen, likely, lovely, made to order, matching, meet, nice, opportune, permitting, pertinent, pleasant, proper, propitious, proportional, pursuant, relevant, ripe, seasonable, seemly, Square, suitable, suited, tailormade, up to, well, well-matched), refah (bonanza, comfort, ease, opulence, prosperity, weal, welfare), kazançlı (beneficial, fat, fruitful, gainful, lucrative, paying, productive, profitable, remunerative, yielding), elverişli (adequate, auspicious, convenient, favourable, opportune, practicable, practical, propitious, streamlined, sufficient, suitable, susceptible), başarılı (accomplished, going, going far, successful, thriving, victorious, well done), şanslı (auspicious, fortunate, jammy, lucky, providential, well off). (various references)

Ukrainian

успішний (big time, effective, successful, useful), удатний, сприятливий (accessory, advantageous, auspicious, benefic, benign, bright, conducive, conducive to, congenial, contributory, favorable, favourable, fortunate, kindly, opportune, profitable, propitious, subservient, white), вдалий (apposite, chancy, felicitous, happy, lucky, successful), заможний (opulent, propertied, silk stocking, substantial, wealthy, well heeled, well to do, worth), процвітаючий (auspicious, flourishing, roaring). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ph�"n vinh (prosperously, saturnian, thrifty), phát đạt (prosperously), thuận lợi (advantageous, fortunate, propitious), thịnh vượng (bonanza, prosperously, velvet), th� nh công thuận. (various references)

Welsh

rhwydd (easy, expeditious), llwyddiannus (successful), llewyrchus (flourishing), hylwydd, ffynadwy. (various references)

fausta, prosper, prospera, prosperis, prospero, prosperum, prosperus. (various references)

speñta. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "prosperous": prosperously, prosperousness, prosperousnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "prosperous": unprosperous. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prosperous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: proosperous, properous, proserous, prospeerous, prospeous, prosperious, prosperus, prosporous, prosprous, prosternum. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: oppressor, proposers, superpros.

-2 letters: opposers, proposer, proposes, prospers, purposes, superpro, supposer.

-3 letters: opposer, opposes, oppress, poseurs, pourers, pressor, propers, propose, prosers, prosper, purpose, pursers, repours, roosers, rousers, soursop, suppers, suppose.

-4 letters: oppose, opuses, poorer, porose, porous, posers, poseur, pourer, proper, proser, proses, prosos, purser, purses, repour, repros, rooser, rooses, ropers, rouser, rouses, serous, sopors.

+2 letters: preposterous, prosperously, unprosperous.

+4 letters: preposterously, prosperousness.

+5 letters: opprobriousness.