Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Prosperity

Nouns
  • prosperity, welfare, well-being
  • affluence etc. (wealth) Wealth
  • success etc. Success
  • thrift, roaring trade
  • good fortune, smiles of fortune
  • blessings, godsend. luck
  • good luck, run of luck
  • sunshine
  • fair weather, fair wind
  • palmy days, bright days, halcyon days
  • piping times, tide, flood, Saturnian age
  • golden time, golden age
  • bed of roses, fat city [Coll.]
  • fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes. made man, lucky dog, spoiled child of fortune. upstart, parvenu, skipjack, mushroom.
Verbs
  • prosper, thrive, flourish
  • be prosperous etc. adj.
  • drive a roaring trade, do a booming business
  • go on well, go on smoothly, go on swimmingly
  • sail before the wind, swim with the tide
  • run smooth, run smoothly, run on all fours. rise in the world, get on in the world
  • work one's way, make one's way
  • look up
  • lift one's head, raise one's head, make one's fortune, feather one's nest, make one's pile. flower, blow, blossom, bloom, fructify, bear fruit, fatten. keep oneself afloat
  • keep one's head above water, hold one's head above water
  • land on one's feet, light on one's feet, light on one's legs, fall on one's legs, fall on one's feet
  • drop into a good thing
  • bear a charmed life
  • bask in the sunshine
  • have a good time of it, have a fine time of it
  • have a run of luck
  • have the good fortune etc. n.. to
  • take a favorable turn
  • live on the fat of the land, live off the fat of the land, live in clover.
Adjectives
  • prosperous
  • thriving etc. v.
  • in a fair way, buoyant
  • well off, well to do, well to do in the world
  • set up, at one's ease
  • rich etc. Wealth
  • in good case
  • in full, in high feather
  • fortunate, lucky, in luck
  • born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star
  • on the sunny side of the hedge. auspicious, propitious, providential. palmy, halcyon
  • agreeable etc. [Capability of giving pleasure; cause or source of pleasure.] Pleasurableness
Adverbs
  • prosperously etc. adj.
  • swimmingly
  • as good luck would have it
  • beyond all hope.
Phrases
  • one's star in the ascendant, all for the best
  • good luck go with thee" [Henry V]