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单词 prosperous
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Definition of prosperous in English:

prosperous

adjective ˈprɒsp(ə)rəsˈprɑsp(ə)rəs
  • 1Successful in material terms; flourishing financially.

    prosperous middle-class professionals
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But that is difficult, even for prosperous economies like those of Western Europe.
    • And the people became more prosperous, more assertive, more individualist.
    • What she uncovers is an epidemic of unimaginable proportions within the world's most prosperous nation.
    • His sister Ann was born two years later and the family were reasonably prosperous with the bakery business being successful.
    • A new prosperous middle class layer has emerged with no roots in the traditional way of life.
    • However, there can be no doubt that we are becoming more prosperous.
    • Rather a major problem is that the financial gap between the prosperous and poorer classes has been widening.
    • Today, it's a relatively stable democracy with one of the most prosperous agricultural economies in West Africa.
    • As a result, business there boomed, housing construction soared, and the area became quite prosperous.
    • We want to ensure that our children's children inherit an economically prosperous country.
    • The place used to be very prosperous, producing high-quality wheat in ancient times.
    • By comparison, it makes even the moribund environmental market look relatively prosperous.
    • If they were successful, it supposedly meant they would have a prosperous life together.
    • She was a prosperous merchant and creative free spirit, a poet and a wordsmith.
    • If we want a prosperous, successful nation the government has to start now and stop tinkering and thieving by stealth.
    • He was born in Moscow, the son of a prosperous tea merchant, and grew up in Odessa.
    • An inventory taken at the time shows a very prosperous society.
    • A wise man once said that a strong middle class is the key ingredient to a prosperous and healthy democracy.
    • But in the long term it is difficult to see prosperous patients settling for second-class status.
    • You will be successful and prosperous in travels, and family and social life will be good.
    Synonyms
    thriving, prospering, booming, burgeoning, successful, strong, vigorous, buoyant
    1. 1.1 Bringing wealth and success.
      we wish you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year
      Example sentencesExamples
      • All these factors make for a prosperous future for hotels in this country.
      • Returning to the past is not a safe path to a prosperous future.
      • This is just a short note to wish you all a very successful, productive and prosperous New Year.
      • I would like to wish you all have a very happy, prosperous, wealthy and above all healthy New Year.
      Synonyms
      thriving, doing well, prospering, buoyant, expanding, flourishing, successful, strong, vigorous, productive, profitable, booming, burgeoning, fruitful, roaring, golden, palmy
      affluent, wealthy, rich, moneyed, cash rich, with deep pockets, well off, well-to-do, opulent, substantial, fortunate, lucky, in clover
      informal on a roll, on the up and up, rolling in it, rolling in money, in the money, loaded, stinking rich, well heeled, flush, made of money, on easy street
      British informal quids in
      informal, dated oofy

Derivatives

  • prosperously

  • adverb ˈprɒsp(ə)rəsliˈprɑsp(ə)rəsli
    • But my family had managed to survive; we lived happily, prosperously, until that day.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her family lived prosperously in London, largely off her mother's properties in Ireland.
      • Umbrella making developed prosperously; they began to be painted with flowers and landscape scenes of various kinds.
      • We have survived prosperously without the interference of your kind!
      • The immigrants to these areas were not seeking a new way of life when they arrived; they expected to continue their old lives, but more prosperously.
  • prosperousness

  • noun ˈprɒsp(ə)rəsnəsˈprɑsp(ə)rəsnəs
    • Successfully and peacefully attaining 40 years means that it is now mature enough to effectively tackle and overcome impediments in its path before a mammoth leap to prosperousness.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French prospereus, from Latin prosperus 'doing well'.

Rhymes

Bosporus
 
 

Definition of prosperous in US English:

prosperous

adjectiveˈprɑsp(ə)rəsˈpräsp(ə)rəs
  • 1Successful in material terms; flourishing financially.

    prosperous middle-class professionals
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If they were successful, it supposedly meant they would have a prosperous life together.
    • A new prosperous middle class layer has emerged with no roots in the traditional way of life.
    • She was a prosperous merchant and creative free spirit, a poet and a wordsmith.
    • His sister Ann was born two years later and the family were reasonably prosperous with the bakery business being successful.
    • But in the long term it is difficult to see prosperous patients settling for second-class status.
    • However, there can be no doubt that we are becoming more prosperous.
    • By comparison, it makes even the moribund environmental market look relatively prosperous.
    • We want to ensure that our children's children inherit an economically prosperous country.
    • And the people became more prosperous, more assertive, more individualist.
    • What she uncovers is an epidemic of unimaginable proportions within the world's most prosperous nation.
    • An inventory taken at the time shows a very prosperous society.
    • Rather a major problem is that the financial gap between the prosperous and poorer classes has been widening.
    • The place used to be very prosperous, producing high-quality wheat in ancient times.
    • You will be successful and prosperous in travels, and family and social life will be good.
    • A wise man once said that a strong middle class is the key ingredient to a prosperous and healthy democracy.
    • But that is difficult, even for prosperous economies like those of Western Europe.
    • As a result, business there boomed, housing construction soared, and the area became quite prosperous.
    • If we want a prosperous, successful nation the government has to start now and stop tinkering and thieving by stealth.
    • Today, it's a relatively stable democracy with one of the most prosperous agricultural economies in West Africa.
    • He was born in Moscow, the son of a prosperous tea merchant, and grew up in Odessa.
    Synonyms
    thriving, prospering, booming, burgeoning, successful, strong, vigorous, buoyant
    1. 1.1 Bringing wealth and success.
      we wish you a prosperous New Year
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Returning to the past is not a safe path to a prosperous future.
      • This is just a short note to wish you all a very successful, productive and prosperous New Year.
      • I would like to wish you all have a very happy, prosperous, wealthy and above all healthy New Year.
      • All these factors make for a prosperous future for hotels in this country.
      Synonyms
      thriving, doing well, prospering, buoyant, expanding, flourishing, successful, strong, vigorous, productive, profitable, booming, burgeoning, fruitful, roaring, golden, palmy

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French prospereus, from Latin prosperus ‘doing well’.

 
 
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