thrive

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to achieve something aimed for
succeedIf you work hard, you'll succeed.
thriveUniversity is a place where she will thrive.
flourishHe tried journalism, but flourished as a novelist.
triumphThe Labour Party triumphed in the election.
bring something offShe's one of the few singers who can bring off such a difficult piece of music.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Success & failure in business
administration
axe
bankrupt
bankruptcy
be running on fumesidiom
belly
charter
dying
float
go belly upidiom
go darkidiom
go into administration
go to the wallidiom
growth hacker
receiver
shut (something) down
shut up shopidiom
sinking shipidiom
soft launch
spin something off

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Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling

Examples of prospered

prospered

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The medical goods industries prospered by the application of technologies originally created through state competition in arenas other than health care, like war.
As behaviorism prospered, the scientific investigation of mental states was discouraged.
Under these conditions it is hardly surprising that national associations have prospered only when it suited the specific interest of business or the administration.
It is likely that weaving prospered and partly relocated towards areas within easy reach of the army contractors.
Meanwhile, private commercial cemeteries prospered on the outskirts of major metropolitan areas even as the old churchyards were still being used.
These institutions differed in their theological ethos and prospered for varying lengths of time.
These alternative institutions prospered because official institutions were no longer recognised as legitimate.
After all, the lord is now a rich man; his voyages must have prospered.
In the sixteenth century the reformation had prospered.
She won respect for her medical skill and prospered as an entrepreneur until the declaration of peace rendered her stock obsolete, bankrupting her.
Surprisingly, children reared in hygienic conditions and with medical supervision perished, while those who had returned to their underprivileged families prospered.
Moreover, domestic industry hereabouts was not run from towns, and also concentrated as it prospered, contrary to proto-industrialization theory in both respects.
Men (and to some extent women) prospered through plots and vendettas.
All countries, in his view, prospered through incorporation into the world economy as exporters of raw materials.
Wealthy churchmen, it seems, prospered at juniors' expense.
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