prosperous
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- wealthy, affluent, moneyed, rich, well-heeled (informal), well-off, well-to-do
- successful, booming, doing well, flourishing, fortunate, lucky, thriving

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Antonyms: unprosperous
Contrasted words: ill-seasoned, ill-timed, inauspicious, inopportune, unpropitious, unseasonable, untimely, impecunious, necessitous, needy, poor, failing, unfortunate, unsuccessful, decrepit, feeble, spindling, weak
Related Idioms: comfortably off, comfortably situated, in (the) clover, in good case
Related Words: appropriate, convenient, desirable, felicitous, fortunate, happy, lucky, affluent, opulent, rich, wealthy, halcyon, lusty, strong

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English Thesaurus: rich, wealthy, affluent, prosperous, well-off, ...

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pros‧per‧ous /ˈprɒspərəs $ ˈprɑː-/ adjective formal
rich and successful:
a prosperous landowner

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In everyday English, people usually say rich or well-off rather than prosperous:
well-off neighborhoods such as Lakeview

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prosperous
adj.
VERBS be, seem | become, grow | remain
ADV. extremely, very | fairly, quite, relatively | formerly, once this once prosperous region
newly Suburbs sprawled out to provide homes for the newly prosperous.
economically

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rich having a lot of money – used about people and places:
She married a rich Greek shipowner.
one of the world’s richest nations
wealthy rich – used about people and places, especially when they have been rich for a long time:
wealthy landowners
Orange County is a very wealthy area.
a wealthy Arab businessman
affluent formal rich – used about societies, groups of people, or areas where people live, where people have nice houses and a lot of expensive possessions:
today’s affluent society
affluent young professionals
an affluent suburb of Boston
prosperous formal rich – used about places and groups of people, especially when their money is related to success in business:
Sales have grown fastest in the more prosperous areas of the south.
prosperous merchants and bankers
well-off fairly rich compared to other people, so that you can live very comfortably:
Her parents are pretty well-off.
children from well-off families
well-to-do written rich – used especially in the past about families and people who had a fairly high position in society:
Only well-to-do families could afford to send their children to university.
The Westons were now well-to-do and there was no necessity for work.
privileged having special advantages because your family have a lot of money and a high position in society:
He comes from a privileged background.
The sport was only played by a privileged few.
comfortably off [not before noun] having enough money to have a nice life without having to worry about money:
I wouldn’t say that we were rich – just comfortably off.
be rolling in it/be loaded informal to be extremely rich:
They’ve got two houses and a boat – they must be rolling in it.
Her books were so successful that she’s loaded now.

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