prosperous
adjective
having or characterized by financial success or good fortune; flourishing; successful.
unprosperous
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a word derived from
prosperous.
Example Sentences
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Still, an unprosperous northern childhood and those years of observing mental illness – and the world’s responses to it – continue to serve him at the age of 52.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 2, 2018
Child’s cookbook, Wheaton said, is a ‘‘slice of life as lived by unprosperous New Englanders in the 1820s and ’30s.’’
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2015
He’s not unprosperous, but he’s not very prosperous; he’s not going make out well off.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2012
Son of an unprosperous artist, young Lawrence Saint worked in a wallpaper store in Pittsburgh's East End as "salesman, janitor and general pack-horse," was made color conscious by his merchandise.
From Time Magazine Archive
The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
