Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a prosperous manner; with success or good fortune.

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  • adverb In a prosperous manner; in the way of the prosperous.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in the manner of prosperous people

Etymologies

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prosperous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The good-natured teacher's high hopes of ending the term prosperously were thus suddenly crushed and he was about to give up in disgust when the better disposed pupils offered to take hold and repair the damage so far as possible and clean out the school room for the exercises, which they did.

    Living in Dryden: February 2004 Archives 2004

  • The good-natured teacher's high hopes of ending the term prosperously were thus suddenly crushed and he was about to give up in disgust when the better disposed pupils offered to take hold and repair the damage so far as possible and clean out the school room for the exercises, which they did.

    Living in Dryden: Anecdotes of Dryden Village 2004

  • Rueff believed government intervention in the economy through spending and taxing hindered an economy's ability to prosperously adjust to change, which ultimately led to less growth and more inflation.

    Fact And Comment Steve Forbes 2010

  • Rueff believed government intervention in the economy through spending and taxing hindered an economy's ability to prosperously adjust to change, which ultimately led to less growth and more inflation.

    Book Review Steve Forbes 2010

  • Rueff believed government intervention in the economy through spending and taxing hindered an economy's ability to prosperously adjust to change, which ultimately led to less growth and more inflation.

    Fact And Comment Steve Forbes 2010

  • So Starfriends, let us live and let live, long and prosperously, and may the force be with you always.

    George Takei calls for Star Wars and Star Trek fans to unite - against Twilight 2011

  • Hood says that my publications sell prosperously, and that they must be reprinted in

    Letter 113 2009

  • "I decided I wanted to help Japanese people live as prosperously as Americans."

    Doing Ikea One Better 2010

  • In Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens provides anecdotal literary evidence of young Victorian Britons seeking their fortune in America before returning home to settle prosperously in the shires, but there is hard documentation that large numbers of the early 20th-century immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were transient industrial workers with little intention to settle permanently in the U.S.

    Home, Temporary, Home 2010

  • The national government undertook to make the whole economic order operate prosperously . . . the Roosevelt measures are a continuous evolution of the Hoover measures.

    Broke Glenn Beck 2010

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