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prosperous

  • adjective
  • pros·per·ous
  • /ˈpɹɑs.pə.ɹəs/

Characterized by success.

Other meanings

  1. Well off; affluent.

    “He was raised in a very prosperous household.”

Related words

  • improsperous
  • overprosperous
  • semiprosperous
  • superprosperous
  • unprosperous
  • prosperously
  • prosperousness
  • prosperity

Example sentences

  • “Ideally, everyone would be prosperous.”

    Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0
  • “If he were still of this world, his offspring would be prosperous.”

    Tatoeba · AmarMecheri · CC0

Word history

From Latin "prosperō" (to cause to succeed).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “prosperous” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.