Definition of "prosperous" []

• Having success; flourishing: a prosperous new business. (adjective)
• Well-to-do; well-off: a prosperous family. (adjective)
• Propitious; favorable: a prosperous moment to make a decision. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• ""I've never seen so much hurt on the street in prosperous Maryland," Ehrlich said."
• "Even in prosperous times (e.g., the 90s, which were very good to Michigan as a whole) Detroit continued to collape."
• "Though he does not say so, a haunted country grown prosperous from the export of precision machine tools may have a brighter future than Britain, for all its clear conscience and financial wizardry."