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Destitution synonyms
dĕs'tĭ-to͝o'shən, -tyo͝o'-
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indigence
The state of being poor; poverty.
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  1. The state of being poor; poverty.
  2. The condition of being indigent
want
Something desired:
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  1. Something desired:
  2. A wish or desire for something; craving
  3. A personification of want.
privation
Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life:
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  1. Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life:
  2. Lack of the ordinary necessities of life
  3. The condition of being without a specified quality or attribute:
beggary
Extreme poverty
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  1. Extreme poverty
  2. The state or condition of being a beggar.
  3. Beggars considered as a group.
impecuniousness
The property of being impecunious.
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  1. The property of being impecunious.
impoverishment
The state of being impoverished.
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  1. The state of being impoverished.
  2. The action of impoverishing someone.
indigence
The state of being poor; poverty.
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  1. The state of being poor; poverty.
  2. The condition of being indigent
need
Something required or wanted; a requisite:
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  1. Something required or wanted; a requisite:
  2. A condition of poverty or misfortune:
  3. A condition of poverty, or extreme want
neediness
The state of being needy
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  1. The state of being needy
  2. The characteristic of being needy.
pennilessness
The state or quality of being penniless.
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  1. The state or quality of being penniless.
penuriousness
The quality of being penurious.
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  1. The quality of being penurious.
penury
Lack of money, property, or necessities; extreme poverty; destitution
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  1. Lack of money, property, or necessities; extreme poverty; destitution
  2. Extreme want or poverty; destitution.
poverty
Deficiency in necessary properties or desirable qualities, or in a specific quality, etc.; inadequacy
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  1. Deficiency in necessary properties or desirable qualities, or in a specific quality, etc.; inadequacy
  2. Renunciation made by a member of a religious order of the right to own property.
  3. The condition or quality of being poor; indigence; need
privation
Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life:
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  1. Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life:
  2. Lack of the ordinary necessities of life
  3. The condition of being without a specified quality or attribute:
want
Something desired:
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  1. Something desired:
  2. A wish or desire for something; craving
  3. Pressing need; destitution:
Find another word for destitution. In this page you can discover 18 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for destitution, like: indigence, want, privation, poverty, beggary, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need and neediness.

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.

  • Destitution on the frontiers led the Triennial Convention to engage extensively in home mission work (1817 onward), and in 1832 the American Baptist Home Mission Society was constituted for the promotion of this work.

  • 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.

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