Antonyms for prosperity
prɒˈspɛr ɪ tipros·per·i·ty

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. prosperitynoun

   Synonyms:
   welfare, weal, well-being, affluence

2. prosperitynoun

   The condition of being prosperous, of having good fortune

   Synonyms:
   weal, welfare, affluence, well-being

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 5 votes

1. prosperity

   Antonyms:
   calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, denouement, disaster, mischance, misfortune, mishap, sequel

   Synonyms:
   benefit, blessing, boon, comfort, favor, help, pleasure, privilege, success

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. prosperity

   Antonyms:
   unsuccess, woe, adversity, failure, reverse

   Synonyms:
   success, weal, welfare, good fortune, well-being, good luck

Matched Categories

1. • Economic Condition
   • Good Fortune

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. prosperitynoun

   an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment

   Synonyms:
   successfulness

2. prosperity, successfulnessnoun

   the condition of prospering; having good fortune

   Synonyms:
   successfulness

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. prosperitynoun

   Antonyms:
   adversity, reverses, disaster

   Synonyms:
   weal, success, well-being

How to use prosperity in a sentence?

1. Sir Thomas Browne:

   I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty into riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Achilles; fortune hath not one place to hit me.

2. Donald Trump:

   I stand before you as a representative of the American people to deliver a message of friendship and hope and love, our vision is one of peace, security and prosperity in this region and all throughout the world. Our goal is a coalition of nations who share the aim of stamping out extremism and providing our children a hopeful future that does honor to God.

3. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar:

   I shall have no faith in Rama and Krishna who are believed to be incarnation of God nor shall I worship them. I thereby reject my old religion, Hinduism, which is detrimental to the prosperity of human kind and which discriminates between man and man and which treats me as inferior.

4. Valery Giscard:

   London's prosperity is very much built on its financial activity, and breaking or weakening that link would certainly have a negative effect on the prosperity of London as well.

5. Henry Fielding:

   He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

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