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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | lucky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fortunate, opportune |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, adventitious, all systems go, auspicious, beneficial, benign, blessed, charmed, coming up roses, everything going, favored, felicitous, fortuitous, getting a break, golden, happy, hit it big, holding aces, hopeful, hot*, in the groove, into something, on a roll, on a streak, promising, propitious, prosperous, providential, serendipitous, striking it rich, successful, timely, well |
| Antonyms: | bad, inopportune, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, unsuccessful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | moneyed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rich |
| Synonyms: | affluent, fat-cat, flush*, leisure-class, loaded, opulent, prosperous, upper-class, upscale, uptown, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do |
| Antonyms: | destitute, poor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rich, luxurious, profuse |
| Synonyms: | abundant, affluent, copious, deluxe, extravagant, exuberant, frilly, lavish, luscious, luxuriant, moneyed, ostentatious, palatial, plentiful, plush, pretentious, prodigal, profusive, prolific, prosperous, rich, riotous, showy, sumptuous, swank, upholstered, velvet*, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do |
| Antonyms: | depressed, destitute, poor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | propitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | full of promise; good, favorable |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, auspicious, beneficial, benign, brave, bright, dexter, encouraging, favoring, fortunate, happy, hopeful, lucky, opportune, pat, promising, prosperous, rosy, seasonable, timely, toward, useful, well-timed |
| Notes: | auspicious implies success in the future while propitious means favorable conditions are present; auspicious means promising or of good omen - not just special or memorable |
| Antonyms: | inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising |
| Main Entry: | rich |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a lot of money |
| Synonyms: | affluent, bloated, comfortable, easy, fat, filthy rich, flush, gilded, in clover, in the money, independent, loaded, made of money, moneyed, opulent, plush, propertied, prosperous, rolling in it, swimming, upscale, uptown, wealthy, well provided for, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do, worth a million |
| Antonyms: | poor |
| 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: | seasonable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | timely, appropriate |
| Synonyms: | apropos, apt, auspicious, convenient, favorable, fit, opportune, pertinent, propitious, prosperous, providential, relevant, seasonal, suitable, timeous, towardly, welcome, well-timed |
| Notes: | seasonal means 'pertaining to the seasons' or 'periodical' and seasonable means 'suitable to the season'; so seasonal refers to a characteristic of an event or phenomenon, whereas seasonable offers a judgment about that characteristic |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, inclement, unfitting, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely |
| Main Entry: | substantial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rich |
| Synonyms: | affluent, comfortable, easy, opulent, prosperous, snug, solid, solvent, wealthy, well, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do |
| Notes: | substantial means considerable or sizeable; substantive means actual or firm |
| Antonyms: | impoverished, poor |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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