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adjective

Prosperous adj.

Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful. "A happy passage and a prosperous wind."

Being prospered; advancing in the pursuit of anything desirable; making gain, or increase; thriving; successful; as, a prosperous voyage; a prosperous undertaking; a prosperous man or nation. "By moderation either state to bear Prosperous or adverse."

Synonyms: Fortunate; successful; flourishing; thriving; favorable; auspicious; lucky. See Fortunate.

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Etymology of 'Prosperous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prosperous" Quotes from Famous Books

... people believe themselves sick, sorrowful and poverty stricken, who would be well, glad and prosperous, if they ...

— The Heart of the New Thought • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... During this prosperous age some of the great houses did their best work in writing and study. Thus to pick out one or two facts from a string of them. In 1104 Abbot Peter of Gloucester gave many books to the abbey library. In 1180 the refounded ...

— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage

... up, you only laugh and make a jest on't; you sleep whilst the master of the house is arranging a bill of fare with his steward for your morrow's entertainment. I speak according as I do myself; quite appreciating, nevertheless, good husbandry in general, and how pleasant quiet and prosperous household management, carried regularly on, is to some natures; and not wishing to fasten my own errors and inconveniences to the thing; nor to give Plato the lie, who looks upon it as the most pleasant employment to every one to do his particular ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... say that and no more; for what can I say? I shall never have your kindness out of my thoughts,—and you never will forget me, I know. We shall please you by telling you our journey was quite prosperous, and wonderfully fine weather, till it ended in grim London, and its fog and cold. (At Basle there was cold, but the sun made up for everything.) We altered our plans so far as to sleep and to stay through a long day ...

— The Brownings - Their Life and Art • Lilian Whiting

... among his acquaintances had been asked to point out an individual as prosperous and happy as, under the most favoured circumstances, it is given to a mortal to be, he would unhesitatingly ...

— Stella Fregelius • H. Rider Haggard

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