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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prosperous" Quotes from Famous Books

... his departure, but he cheered her by telling her he would soon return, well and prosperous, for her. She told him that Pecksniff seemed somehow to have made his grandfather trust him, and that by his advice they were both to move to The Blue Dragon Inn, near his house. Martin told her of Pecksniff's true ...

— Tales from Dickens • Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives

... social order of the modern world exhibits a strange enigma, which only a prosperous thoughtlessness can regard with indifference or, indeed, without a shudder. We have made such splendid advances in art and science that the unlimited forces of nature have been brought into subjection, and only await our command to perform for us all our disagreeable and ...

— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka

... tyrant; it seemed as if all circumstances conspired against him, and as if he was too weak to struggle with them; else, why did everything indoors and out-of-doors go so wrong just now, when all he could have done, had things been prosperous, was to have submitted, in very imperfect patience, to the loss of his wife? But just when he needed ready money to pacify Osborne's creditors, the harvest had turned out remarkably plentiful, and the price of corn had sunk down to a level it had not touched for years. ...

— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... dark, a village with a good prosperous alehouse, and here Bill showed quite his old form. He waltzed, he threw somersaults, he found handkerchiefs, he carried the hat; his docility was all that Trotter and the Signor could have asked. They cleared one and ...

— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon

... houses, gardens, and kiosks; when Joseph was Duke of Naxos, and Solomon Ashkenazi Envoy Extraordinary to Venice; when Tiberias was turned into a new Jerusalem and planted with mulberry-trees; when prosperous physicians wrote elegant Latin verses; in those days the hope of the Messiah was faint and dim. But it flamed up fiercely enough when their strength and prestige died down with that of the Empire, and the ...

— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

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