improsperous

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From im- +‎ prosperous.

Adjective[edit]

improsperous (comparative more improsperous, superlative most improsperous)

  1. (obsolete) not prosperous
    • 1697, John Dryden, transl., Aeneid, book VI:
      Seven revolving years are wholly run, Since the improsperous voyage we begun.

Derived terms[edit]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “improsperous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)