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| Main Entry: |
thriving
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | successful |
| Synonyms: | advancing, arrived, blooming, booming, burgeoning, cooking*, developing, doing well, flourishing, going strong, growing, have it made, have the wherewithal, healthy, home free, on top of heap, progressing, prolific, prospering, prosperous, rich, roaring, robust, rolling, sitting pretty, wealthy |
| Antonyms: | declining, failing, languishing, losing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive, rich |
| Synonyms: | affluent, cushy, fertile, flourishing, fruitful, good, lucrative, lush, profitable, prosperous, remunerative, thriving |
| Antonyms: | impoverished, poor, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | flourishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prospering, going well |
| Synonyms: | blooming, burgeoning, doing well, expanding, exuberant, going strong, growing, in full swing, in the pink, in top form, lush, luxuriant, mushrooming, profuse, prosperous, rampant, rank, rich, roaring, robust, successful, thriving, vigorous |
| Antonyms: | ceasing, decreasing, failing, languishing, stunted, undeveloping |
| Main Entry: | fortunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having good luck |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, affluent, auspicious, blessed, born with a silver spoon, bright, charmed, convenient, encouraging, favorable, favored, felicitous, flourishing, fortuitous, gaining, get a break, golden, happy, healthy, helpful, hopeful, in luck, in the gravy, lucky, on a roll, opportune, overcoming, profitable, promising, propitious, prosperous, providential, rosy, sitting pretty, successful, sunny side, thriving, timely, triumphant, victorious, wealthy, well-off, well-to-do |
| Notes: | fortunate means having unexpected good fortune or luck; fortuitous means happening by chance or coming or occurring by accident or without any known cause |
| Antonyms: | adverse, sad, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, upset |
| Main Entry: | luxuriant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse, plush |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ample, copious, deluxe, dense, elaborate, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fecund, fertile, flamboyant, flourishing, fruitful, lavish, luscious, lush, opulent, overflowing, palatial, plenteous, plentiful, prodigal, productive, profusive, prolific, rampant, rank, rich, riotous, sumptuous, superabundant, teeming, thriving |
| Notes: | luxuriant indicates profusion while luxurious means sumptuous and expensive |
| Antonyms: | barren, plain, poor |
| Main Entry: | moneymaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | producing profit |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, gainful, going, good, lucrative, paying, profitable, remunerative, successful, thriving, well-paying |
| Antonyms: | unprofitable |
| Main Entry: | robust |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthy, strong |
| Synonyms: | able-bodied, athletic, boisterous, booming, brawny, built, concentrated, fit, fit as fiddle, flourishing, full-bodied, hale, hardy, hearty, hefty, husky, in fine fettle, in good health, in good shape, in the pink, live, lusty, muscular, peppy, potent, powerful, powerhouse, prospering, prosperous, roaring, robustious, robustuous, rough, rugged, sinewy, snappy, sound, stout, strapping, sturdy, thriving, tiger, tough, vigorous, vital, well, wicked*, zappy, zippy |
| Antonyms: | flabby, infirm, soft, unhealthy, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | successful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | favorable, profitable |
| Synonyms: | acknowledged, advantageous, ahead of the game, at the top, at top of ladder, auspicious, bestselling, blooming, blossoming, booming, champion, crowned, efficacious, extraordinary, flourishing, fortuitous, fortunate, fruitful, happy, lucky, lucrative, moneymaking, notable, noteworthy, on track, out in front, outstanding, paying, prosperous, rewarding, rolling, strong, thriving, top, triumphant, unbeaten, undefeated, victorious, wealthy |
| Antonyms: | forfeiting, losing, unfavorable, unprofitable, unsuccessful |
| Main Entry: | well |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lucky, fortunate |
| Synonyms: | advisable, agreeable, bright, comfortable, fine, fitting, flourishing, good, happy, pleasing, profitable, proper, prosperous, providential, prudent, right, satisfactory, thriving, useful |
| Notes: | using good as an adverb in place of well ("she dances real good," "he did good") is nonstandard usage - so, it would be best to say "she dances very well," "he did well" well is an adverb to describe an activity; good is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
| Antonyms: | unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky |
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