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unprosperous
adjective
uk /ʌnˈprɒs.pər.əs/ us /ʌnˈprɑː.spɚ.əs/
not successful, especially not earning much money:
He plays the dedicated, but unprosperous proprietor of a specialist record store.
They lived in an unprosperous neighbourhood.
Opposite
prosperous
She was born into a large, unprosperous farming family.
The houses were built on the edge of the village for its then not unprosperous blue-collar workers.
The relatively poor and unproductive agricultural lands kept regional landowners widely dispersed and relatively unprosperous.
For all the talk of wealth, he describes the city as strangely unprosperous.
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