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Prosperous vs Verdure - What's the difference?

prosperous | verdure |

As an adjective prosperous

is characterized by success.

As a noun verdure is

the greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also : the vegetation itself.

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

    Related terms

    * prosper

    verdure

    English

    Noun

  • The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also : the vegetation itself.
  • * 1610 , , by Shakespeare
    • [...] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.
  • * 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142
    • The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.
  • *
    • To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.
  • (hence) A condition of health and vigour.

    • Related terms

    * verdant * verdurous