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PROSPERING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prospering mean?
• PROSPERING (adjective)
The adjective PROSPERING has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: PROSPERING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very lively and profitable
Synonyms:
booming; flourishing; palmy; prospering; prosperous; roaring; thriving
Context example:
did a thriving business in orchids
Similar:
successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)
Context examples
He had managed for me, in my absence, with the soundest judgement; and my worldly affairs were prospering.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She thought she was prospering finely, but unconsciously she was beginning to desecrate some of the womanliest attributes of a woman's character.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She was happy and useful, was prospering as she had hoped.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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