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successful or good — especially with regard to finances or wealth- She owns a prosperous law firm.
prosperous = financially successful
- We are laying the groundwork for a peaceful and prosperous Africa.
- She was born into a prosperous home.
- That part of the city is especially prosperous.
- May God grant you a long and prosperous life, my daughter.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- The more prosperous families had coal sheds; the poorer ones left their coal in a pile out front.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- 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.Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth
- 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.Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
- Most of the characters that perform in this book still live, and are prosperous and happy.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- His father left, trailing the faint, unfamiliar, prosperous aroma of his cigar.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- The farm was more prosperous now, and better organised: it had even been enlarged by two fields which had been bought from Mr. Pilkington.George Orwell -- Animal Farm
- Is it any happiness or any comfort, to consider that we are our own? It may be thought so by the young and prosperous.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- Rebellion is for prosperous islands, or else those so ground down they have no other choice.Madeline Miller -- Circe
- My uncle engaged afterwards in more prosperous undertakings: it appears he realised a fortune of twenty thousand pounds.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- Related words: joy, gladness, feeling fortunate or prosperous.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- The sons and the father become prosperous.Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
- His prosperous-looking belly that used to thrust out so pugnaciously and intimidate folks, sagged like a load suspended from his loins.Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- He wanted him to be a prosperous man, having enough in his barn to feed the ancestors with regular sacrifices.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- Among those who are at all his equals in consequence, he is a very different man from what he is to the less prosperous.Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
prosperous = doing well materially
prosperous = well-off (indicating financial success)
prosperous = financially successful
prosperous = successful
prosperous = successful
prosperous = financially successful
prosperous = successful
prosperous = financially successful
prosperous = doing well
prosperous = indicating financial success
prosperous = successful
prosperous = successful
prosperous = successful
prosperous = financially successful
prosperous = successful
prosperous = financially successful
prosperous = indicating wealth
prosperous = financially successful
prosperous = wealthy
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