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prosperous
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    That part of the city is especially prosperous.
    prosperous = financially successful
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    Related words: joy, gladness, feeling fortunate or prosperous.  (source)
    prosperous = successful
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    Rebellion is for prosperous islands, or else those so ground down they have no other choice.  (source)
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    In 1978, Walt went into business for himself, launching a small but eventually prosperous consulting firm, User Systems, Incorporated.  (source)
    prosperous = financially successful
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    The first few days of the voyage passed prosperously, amid favourable weather and propitious winds, and they soon came in sight of the great Andaman, the principal of the islands in the Bay of Bengal, with its picturesque Saddle Peak, two thousand four hundred feet high, looming above the waters.†  (source)
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    At all events, I, the present writer, as their representative, hereby take shame upon myself for their sakes, and pray that any curse incurred by them—as I have heard, and as the dreary and unprosperous condition of the race, for many a long year back, would argue to exist—may be now and henceforth removed.  (source)
    unprosperous = not doing well
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unprosperous means not and reverses the meaning of prosperous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Her life, begun not unprosperously, had come down to this—to a mean prison and a long, ignoble bondage.†  (source)
    unprosperously = in a manner that is not successful or good
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unprosperously means not and reverses the meaning of prosperously. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The more prosperous families had coal sheds; the poorer ones left their coal in a pile out front.  (source)
    prosperous = financially successful
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    As the Indians witnessed her apparently undirected movements, a feeling of awe gained a footing among them, and some of the boldest of their party began to distrust the issue of an expedition that had commenced so prosperously.†  (source)
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    The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.  (source)
    unprosperous = not looking successful or good
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    Before the sun rose on a thundering grey morning the child was fast asleep in the Owenses' fine little tomb (for Master Owens had died the prosperous head of the local cabinetmaker's guild, and the cabinetmakers had wanted to ensure that he was properly honored).  (source)
    prosperous = successful
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    She grew up peacefully and prosperously, but at the age of eighteen Mrs. Penniman had not made a clever woman of her.†  (source)
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    The rest were liberally paid and dismissed, the faithful old butler, whom Mrs. Osborne proposed to retain, resigning and preferring to invest his savings in a public-house, where, let us hope, he was not unprosperous.†  (source)
    unprosperous = not successful or good
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