prospering
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Experiencing or characterized by success, growth, or good fortune: The word "prospering" describes a state of being successful and thriving, especially in financial or economic terms. It implies vigorous, healthy growth and favorable conditions.
Usage
- "Prospering" is used to describe entities (like businesses, economies, or regions) or, less commonly, people, that are doing very well and are in a period of success and expansion.
- It often carries a connotation of active, ongoing growth and lively activity.
Examples
- Adjective:
- The city's downtown area is now a prospering commercial hub.
- After years of hard work, their family-run shop is finally prospering.
- The report highlighted several prospering industries in the technology sector.
Advanced Usage
- "to be prospering": This phrase emphasizes the current, active state of success.
- Despite economic challenges, the local artisan community continues to be prospering.
- Used in a comparative or superlative sense (though less common): , .
- This has become the most prospering district in the entire province.
Variants and Related Words
- Prosper (verb): To be successful, especially financially; to thrive.
- The company hopes to prosper in the new market.
- Prosperous (adjective): Successful and wealthy.
- They lived in a prosperous neighborhood.
- Prosperity (noun): The state of being prosperous.
- The nation enjoyed a period of great prosperity.
Synonyms
- Flourishing: Growing or developing in a healthy or vigorous way.
- Thriving: Very successful, growing vigorously.
- Booming: Having a period of great prosperity or rapid economic growth.
- Successful: Accomplishing a desired aim or result.
Antonyms
- Failing: Not achieving success; declining.
- Struggling: Striving to achieve or attain something in the face of difficulty.
- Declining: Becoming smaller, fewer, or less; decreasing in quality or power.
Adjective
- very lively and profitable
- flourishing businesses
- a palmy time for stockbrokers
- a prosperous new business
- doing a roaring trade
- a thriving tourist center
- did a thriving business in orchids