prosperous
adjEtymology
From Middle French prospereus, from Old French prosperer, from Latin prosperō (“to cause to succeed”), from Old Latin pro spere (“according to expectation”), from pro (“for”) + spes (“hope”).
- derived from pro spere
- derived from prosperō
- derived from prosperer
- derived from prospereus
Definitions
Characterized by success.
- Trading Babe Ruth was far more prosperous for the Yankees than for the Red Sox.
Well off
Well off; affluent.
- He was raised in a very prosperous household.
- He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused or abandoned.
Favorable.
- He chose a prosperous lottery number that evening.
- So draw him home to those that mourn In vain; a favourable speed Ruffle thy mirror’d mast, and lead Thro’ prosperous floods his holy urn.
The neighborhood
- synonymrich
- synonymwell off
- synonymwell-to-do
- synonymwealthy
- synonymlucky
- synonymauspicious
- synonymbustling
- synonymflourishing
- synonymfortunate
- synonymprivileged
- synonymprosperous
- synonymroaring
- antonymfailed
- antonymimprosperous
- antonymspeedless
- antonymunfortunate
- antonymunsuccessful
- antonymunthriving
- neighborprosper
- neighborauspicious
- neighborwealthy
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at prosperous. 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 prosperous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at prosperous
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA