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Adjective
/ˈpräspərəs/,
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Successful in material terms; flourishing financially,
  1. Successful in material terms; flourishing financially
    • - prosperous middle-class professionals
  2. Bringing wealth and success
    • - we wish you a prosperous New Year
  1. comfortable: 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. booming: 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. golden: marked by peace and prosperity; "a golden era"; "the halcyon days of the clipper trade"
  4. golden: presaging or likely to bring good luck; "a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision"
  5. (prosperously) in the manner of prosperous people
  6. (prosperity) an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment
  7. (Prosperousness) Wealth is the abundance of valuable resources or material possessions or the control of such assets. The word wealth is derived from the old English wela, which is from an Indo-European word stem. ...
  8. Prosperity is the state of flourishing, thriving, success, or good fortune. Prosperity often encompasses wealth but also includes others factors which are independent of wealth to varying degrees, such as happiness and health.
  9. (Prosperity (film)) Prosperity (1932) is a comedy film starring Marie Dressler and Polly Moran. The two leading actresses play longtime matriarchal ladies comically sparring off each other, and trying to control their intertwined lives.
  10. (Prosperity (SC)) Prosperity is a town in Newberry County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,047 at the 2000 census.
  11. (Prosperity (television)) Prosperity is a series of four one-hour dramas for television from director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O'Halloran. Prosperity features "four powerful, moving and funny stories set on the same day, with each episode examining the life of a single character. ...
  12. characterized by success; well off; affluent; favorable
  13. (PROSPERITY) Affluence, Extravagance, Generosity, Luxury, Money, Opulence, Rich, Wealth.
  14. (Prosperity) (1) the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. (2) the best protector of principle. (3) the surest breeder of insolence.
  15. (Prosperity) 1) That peculiar condition which excites the lively interest of the ambulance-chaser. 2) That which comes about when men believe in other men. 3) That condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages or indicted, or both.
  16. (Prosperity) A mainline type of luck chain letter characterized by (1) copy quota five, deadline 24 hours and wait nine or four days, (2) a managed list of six senders on the earliest example, and (3) an instruction to send the letters to "people you wish prosperity to. ...
  17. (Prosperity) Almond, Ash, Banana, Nuts, Oak, Tulip
  18. (Prosperity) Long-term health for the region
  19. (Prosperity) Result of keeping God's Law of Tithing: Members tithe and ministers live in prosperity
  20. (Prosperity) Taking away all the excess wealth from greedy, productive capitalists and putting it in the hands of powerful, omniscient, leftist bureaucrats and politicians who masterfully use it on impressively large, wealth-consuming state programmes and top-down central economic planning ...
  21. (Prosperity) The consciousness of God as the abundant, everywhere present resource, unfailing, ready for all who open themselves to it through faith. "They that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing" (Psalms 34:10). ...
  22. (Prosperity) This is a term that refers to the economic stability and opportunity experienced during the 1920s. The inventions of new consumer goods and home electrical products contributed to this prosperity. ...
  23. (Prosperity) USE Living standards
  24. (Prosperity) Under Ögedei and his successors, Karakorum became a major center for world politics. Möngke Khan had the palace enlarged, and the great stupa temple completed.^[5]
  25. (prosperity) From the Latin adjective prosperus, -a, -um, meaning fortunate, lucky, or successful.