Sample Sentences for
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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    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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    At his side, like a useless appendage, is his wife, twenty-seven years younger and equally poor, whose arms and legs are loaded with real and fake bracelets and rings left over from more prosperous days.  (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)
    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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    So each spring he set forth with his army and each autumn he returned, and year by year the kingdom grew larger and more prosperous.  (source)
    prosperous = 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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    He stepped into a men's shop a few doors down and bought himself a new suit, a new shirt, a new tie, a new hat—everything he'd seen the most prosperous men along the street wearing.  (source)
    prosperous = financially successful
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    In the meanwhile the promises of M. de Treville went on prosperously.†  (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)
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