Destitution synonyms

dĕs'tĭ-to͝o'shən, -tyo͝o'-

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indigence
The condition of being indigent
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want
The definition of a want is something desired or wished for.
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privation
The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
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poverty (related)
Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
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beggary
Beggarly appearance.
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impecuniosity
The state of being impecunious; impecuniousness
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impecuniousness
The property of being impecunious.
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impoverishment
The state of being impoverished.
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need
Necessity; obligation:
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neediness
The state of being needy
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pennilessness
The state or quality of being penniless.
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penuriousness
The quality of being penurious.
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penury
Penury is defined as extreme poverty or lacking basic necessities.
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rich (related)
A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
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grinding-poverty (related)
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pauperism (related)
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misery (related)
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injustice (related)
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squalor (related)
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Find another word for destitution. In this page you can discover 19 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for destitution, like: indigence, want, privation, poverty, beggary, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, need, neediness and pennilessness.
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Destitution Sentence Examples

  • Despite this destitution, the soldiers and officers went on living just as usual.

  • Despite a huge emigration of Jews from Russia, the congestion within the pale is the cause of terrible destitution and misery.

  • He was imposed upon by speculators in whom he placed confidence, and was reduced to destitution by the failure of a scheme in which they engaged him.

  • Believing implicitly in the rumours of a descent on Boulogne and of risings in France which also reached him, and knowing the destitution he had left behind him in his movement to Ulm, when he heard of the westward march of French columns from the Lech he told his army, apparently in all good faith, that the French were in full march for their own coun try.

  • On the 20th extreme destitution obliged the British to fall back on Badajoz.

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