PROSPERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prospering mean? 

• PROSPERING (adjective)
  The adjective PROSPERING has 1 sense:

1. very lively and profitable

  Familiarity information: PROSPERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROSPERING (adjective)

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)