All 6 Uses of
prosperous
in
Arrowsmith
- He was such a genial and sympathetic salesman; he gave them cigars and told G. U. stories and explained what prosperous doctors they were all going to be.†
Chpt 2 *
- The second kind are more prosperous.†
Chpt 4
- He hinted a desire to know whether Martin "drank," how prosperous he was, and how he could possibly have come all this way from the urbanities of Winnemac.†
Chpt 9
- Once or twice he lost his temper with jovial villagers who bountifully explained to him that he was less aged than he might have been; once or twice he drank too much whisky at poker parties in the back room of the Cooperative Store; but he was known as reliable, skillful, and honest—and on the whole he was rather less distinguished than Alec Ingleblad the barber, less prosperous than Nils Krag the carpenter, and less interesting to his neighbors than the Finnish garageman.†
Chpt 16
- It's a fine town—prosperous— so few dead beats.†
Chpt 20
- She was meaty with advice, being the daughter of a prosperous person, none other than Mr. S. A. Peaseley, the manufacturer of the Daisy Manure Spreader.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(prosperous) successful or good -- especially with regard to finances or wealth