unthriving
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unthriving (comparative more unthriving, superlative most unthriving)
- Failing to thrive; weak or sickly.
- 1797, An English Lady, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,[1]:
- In every place where there are half a dozen houses is planted an unthriving tree of liberty, which seems to wither under the baneful influence of the bonnet rouge.
- 1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes[2]:
- He stopped short and looked at the brick wall of the terrace, faced with shallow arches, meagrely clothed by a few unthriving creepers, with an ill-kept narrow flower-bed along its foot.