prosper
verbEtymology
From Old French prosperer, from Latin prosperō (“to render happy”), from prosperus (“prosperous”), from Proto-Italic *prosparos, from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to succeed”), whence also Latin spēs (“hope, expectation”).
- derived from *speh₁-✻
- derived from *prosparos✻
- derived from prosperō
- derived from prosperer
Definitions
To be successful
To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.
To grow
To grow; to increase.
- And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
To favor
To favor; to render successful.
- Prosper thou our handiwork.
- Greensleeues now farewel adue God I pray to prosper thee: For I am stil thy louer true, come once againe and loue me.
- The Gods defenders of the innocent, Will neuer proſper your intended driftes, That thus oppreſſe poore friendles paſſengers.
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A male given name from French.
The neighborhood
- synonymprosper
- synonymdo well
- synonymdo well for oneself
- synonymgain
- synonymgrow
- synonymthrive
- synonymflourish
- synonymsucceed
- antonymdecline
- antonymfail
- antonymfall
- antonymfall on hard times
- antonymgo awry
- antonymgo downhill
- antonymgo pear-shaped
- antonymgo to pot
- antonymgo to shit
- antonymgo to the dogs
- antonymgo down the toilet
- antonymgo wrong
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A definitional loop anchored at prosper. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at prosper. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at prosper
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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