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Prosperous vs Healthy - What's the difference?

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Prosperous is a related term of healthy.


As adjectives the difference between prosperous and healthy

is that prosperous is characterized by success while healthy is enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.

prosperous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • characterized by success
  • Trading Babe Ruth was far more prosperous for the Yankees than for the Red Sox.
  • well off; affluent
  • He was raised in a very prosperous household.
  • favorable
  • He chose a prosperous lottery number that evening.

    Synonyms

    * (characterized by success ): successful * (well off ): affluent, rich, well off, well-to-do, wealthy * (favorable ): favorable

    Derived terms

    * prosperously * prosperousness * prosperity

    healthy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
  • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy -looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
  • Conducive to health.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
  • Evincing health.
  • (label) Significant, hefty; beneficial.
  • Synonyms

    * (conducive to health) healthful

    Antonyms

    *

    Derived terms

    * *