Antonyms for prosper
ˈprɒs pərpros·per

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 5 votes

1. prosper

   A person succeeds when he accomplishes what he attempts, or attains a desired object or result; an enterprise or undertaking succeeds that has a prosperous result. To win implies that some one loses, but one may succeed where no one fails. A solitary swimmer succeeds in reaching the shore; if we say he wins the shore we contrast him with himself as a possible loser. Many students may succeed in study; a few win the special prizes, for which all compete. Compare FOLLOW.

   Antonyms:
   be defeated, come short, fail, fall short, lose, miscarry, miss

   Synonyms:
   achieve, attain, flourish, prevail, succeed, thrive, win

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. thrive, prosper, fly high, flourishverb

   make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance

   "The new student is thriving"

   Synonyms:
   wave, brandish, fly high, thrive, boom, expand, flourish

How to use prosper in a sentence?

1. Xavier Becerra:

   The federal government has spent trillions of dollars to try to keep Americans alive during this pandemic. So it is absolutely the government's business, it is taxpayers' business if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting COVID and helping reopen the economy. And so it is our business to try to make sure Americans can prosper, Americans can freely associate.

2. Lex Kerssemakers:

   The U.S. is a key market for the development of the group and today we get back onto the front foot, volvo is not only in the U.S. to stay, it is in the U.S. to prosper.

3. Booker T. Washington:

   No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

4. Joseph Aucoin:

   (The) International Law of the Sea has helped (China) for so many years. We just want them to respect those rights so that we can all continue to prosper.

5. Wolf Blitzer:

   We need each other, and it is a scoundrel who would prosper politically by turning us against each other, that is the job before us -- to get through this, and beyond it. And you're just the ones to take us there.

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