unthriven

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English

Etymology

un- +‎ thriven

Adjective

unthriven (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Not having thrived.
    • 1872, Peter Hately Waddell, Behold the Man, page 63:
      The base unthriven herd; the Pharaoh's kine—