prosper

Speech parts

1. prosper - Verb

2. Prosper - Proper noun

Meaning

To favor; to render successful.

To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.

To grow; to increase.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

thrive flourish fly high batten bloom increase live burgeon win rise develop improve grow progress advance

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Antonyms

miss fall slip blight decline drop

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Hypernyms

turn change state

Related terms

prosperity prosperous ill-gotten gains never prosper prosperer

Phrases with the word

ill-gotten gains never prosper I prosper ill-gotten goods never prosper

Derivatives

prospered prospering

Anagrams

propers prospre

Examples

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington

But they will give straight judgements to strangers and to the men of the land, and go not aside from what is just, their city flourishes, and the people prosper in it. Hesiod

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. Muhammad Iqbal

Praise youth and it will prosper. Irish Proverb

Live long and prosper. Vulcan Proverb

Fools never prosper. American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

prospects for growth prospectus prospectusless Prosper Meniere prosperer prospering