Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Prosperous and successful: Describes a state of great success, flourishing development, and thriving fortune, often in business, career, or life in general. It implies robust growth and favorable conditions.

2. Adjective (archaic/literary):

   • Having a brilliant career: To achieve remarkable success in one's professional or public life.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Công ty của ông ấy đang rất thịnh đạt. (His company is very prosperous.)
  • Mong cho sự nghiệp của con luôn thịnh đạt. (I wish for your career to always be successful and flourishing.)
  • Thời kỳ thịnh đạt nhất của triều đại đó kéo dài 50 năm. (The most prosperous period of that dynasty lasted 50 years.)

Advanced Usage

• Used to describe eras, periods, businesses, or personal careers that are at their peak of success and expansion.
• Often carries a formal or slightly literary tone, suggesting sustained and impressive success rather than a momentary achievement.

Variants and Related Words

• Thịnh vượng (adj): Prosperous, thriving. Often used in economic contexts.

  • Một nền kinh tế thịnh vượng. (A prosperous economy.)

• Phát đạt (adj): Prosperous, successful. Very close in meaning, slightly more common in modern speech for personal success.

  • Cầu chúc gia đình bạn ngày càng phát đạt. (I wish your family increasing prosperity.)

Synonyms

• Prosperous: Successful in material terms.
• Flourishing: Growing or developing in a healthy and vigorous way.
• Thriving: Very successful or growing strongly.

Related Idioms

• Làm ăn thịnh đạt: To do thriving business.

  • Cửa hàng nhỏ của họ ngày càng làm ăn thịnh đạt. (Their small shop is doing more and more thriving business.)

• Thời kỳ thịnh đạt: A golden age; a period of great prosperity.

  • Đây được xem là thời kỳ thịnh đạt của nền văn hóa. (This is considered the golden age of the culture.)

adj

1. successful in life