adjective
- having or characterized by financial success or good fortune; flourishing; successful: a prosperous business.
- well-to-do or well-off: a prosperous family.
- favorable or propitious.
adjective
- flourishing; prospering
- rich; affluent; wealthy
- favourable or promising
adj.early 15c., “tending to bring success,” from prosper + -ous, or else from obsolete Middle French prospereus (15c.), from prosperer. The sense of “flourishing” is first recorded late 15c.