prosperless

Adjective

prosperless (comparative more prosperless, superlative most prosperless)

1. (rare) Devoid of prosperity; not prosperous
   • Its homogeneous folk, its life rooted in the soil, its rough village equality, its prosperless but independent people, its artless literacy, its sturdy moralism— all contrasted, on one side, with the pullulating cities of a newer America, a more European America, where poverty and ignorance, class...2002, James Turner, The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton
   • Though the Americas would have eventually been colonized for no other reason than we simply ran out of space, it would have been a much slower process if people thought it was just a lump prosperless land.2016, America without the Indians

   Synonyms:

   unprosperous