prosperous

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈpɹɑs.pə.ɹəs/
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/ˈpɹɑs.pə.ɹəs/ · /ˈpɹɒs.p(ə.)ɹəs/

Definition of prosperous

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Characterized by success.
    “Trading Babe Ruth was far more prosperous for the Yankees than for the Red Sox.”
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adj

  1. Characterized by success.
    “Trading Babe Ruth was far more prosperous for the Yankees than for the Red Sox.”
  2. Well off; affluent.
    “He was raised in a very prosperous household.”
    “He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused or abandoned.”
  3. Favorable.
    “He chose a prosperous lottery number that evening.”
    “So draw him home to those that mourn ⁠In vain; a favourable speed ⁠Ruffle thy mirror’d mast, and lead Thro’ prosperous floods his holy urn.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle French prospereus, from Old French prosperer, from Latin prosperō (“to cause to succeed”), from Old Latin pro spere (“according to expectation”), from pro (“for”) + spes (“hope”).

Anagrams of prosperous

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