prosperous
IPA: prˈɑspɝʌs
adjective
- Characterized by success.
- Well off; affluent.
- Favorable.
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Examples of "prosperous" in Sentences
- The culture of scallops is prosperous in the bay.
- Â Springfield grew up in prosperous Hampstead in North London.
- "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.
- Even the smaller estimate is sufficiently impressive, but probably, in prosperous times at least, the higher is more nearly correct.
- The Privy Council wrote to Henry that they had visited Mary often recently "whoe god be thanked is in prosperous health and convalescence."
- 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.
- Since a single dentist, however, cannot render adequate service to more than 30 per cent of this number, about 70 per cent of the needed dental services, even in prosperous times, are not rendered at all.
- Housewives in prosperous areas can select from blushing Georgia peaches, fresh broccoli and plump kiwi, while señoras in less prosperous areas are limited to seasonal domestic fruit, tangerines and melons, and traditional produce like nopales (cactus), green tomatillos and chili peppers.
- As far as I can tell, the most likely consequence of the incessant droning that taxes are bad, now that the primary goal of destroying public services while reducing the tax burden on the already prosperous is close to attainment, is that all Americans will adopt the Greek attitude towards taxes.