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insolvent
Of or relating to bankrupt persons or entities.
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  1. Of or relating to bankrupt persons or entities.
  2. Not solvent; unable to pay debts as they become due; bankrupt
  3. Owing more than one has in assets.
destitute
Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished.
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  1. Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished.
  2. Lacking the necessities of life; living in complete poverty
  3. (Obs.) Abandoned; forsaken
broke
Having little or no ready money
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  1. Having little or no ready money
  2. Lacking funds:
  3. (Informal) Broken.
beggarly
So mean, petty, or paltry as to deserve contempt.
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  1. So mean, petty, or paltry as to deserve contempt.
  2. Like or fit for a beggar; very poor, worthless, inadequate, etc.
  3. Of, relating to, or befitting a beggar; very poor:
destitute
Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished.
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  1. Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished.
  2. Lacking the necessities of life; living in complete poverty
  3. Utterly lacking; devoid:
down-and-out
Incapacitated; prostrate.
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  1. Incapacitated; prostrate.
  2. Lacking funds, resources, or prospects.
impoverished
Deprived of richness or strength; limited or depleted:
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  1. Deprived of richness or strength; limited or depleted:
  2. Reduced to poverty; poverty-stricken:
indigent
(Archaic) Lacking; destitute (of)
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  1. (Archaic) Lacking; destitute (of)
  2. Experiencing want or need; impoverished:
  3. In poverty; poor; needy; destitute
necessitous
Needy; indigent.
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  1. Needy; indigent.
  2. In great need; destitute; needy
  3. (Archaic) Needy, indigent, destitute, poor.
needy
Wanting or needing affection, attention, or reassurance, especially to an excessive degree.
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  1. Wanting or needing affection, attention, or reassurance, especially to an excessive degree.
  2. In, or characterized by, need, or poverty; not having enough to live on; very poor
penniless
Without even a penny; extremely poor
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  1. Without even a penny; extremely poor
  2. Not having a penny; utterly impoverished; extremely poor.
  3. Very poor.
penurious
Unwilling to part with money or possessions; mean; miserly; stingy
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  1. Unwilling to part with money or possessions; mean; miserly; stingy
  2. Poverty-stricken; destitute.
  3. Characterized by extreme poverty; impoverished
poor
Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.
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  1. Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.
  2. Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable:
  3. Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior:
poverty-stricken
Characteristic of, or giving the appearance of, poverty
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  1. Characteristic of, or giving the appearance of, poverty
  2. Extremely poor:
  3. Stricken with poverty; very poor
broke
Lacking funds:
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  1. Lacking funds:
  2. Having little or no ready money
  3. (Informal) Broken.
strapped
In financial need:
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  1. In financial need:
  2. (Informal) In great need of money
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Sentence Examples

  • In November 1340 Edward III., humiliated, impecunious and angry, returned suddenly to England from Flanders and vented his wrath upon the archbishop's brother, the chancellor, Robert de Stratford.

  • The impecunious were locked up and deprived of all hope of earning means to obtain enlargement; while their families and persons dependent on them shared their imprisonment and added to the overcrowding.

  • The Irish exile enlisted first the services of Maurice Fitzgerald and Robert Fitzstephen, two half-brothers, both noted fighting men, and afterwards those of Richard de Clare, earl of Pembroke, an ambitious and impecunious magnate of broken fortunes.

  • He consulted the older and graver Laurentius Andreae, who told him how "Doctor Martinus had clipped the wings of the pope, the cardinals and the big bishops," which could not fail to be pleasing intelligence to a monarch who was never an admirer of episcopacy, while the rich revenues of the church, accumulated in the course of centuries, were a tempting object to the impecunious ruler of an impoverished people.

  • The war of 1870-7r found Boudin impecunious but great, for then there had well begun the series of freshly and vigorously conceived canvases and panels, which record the impressions of a precursor of the Impressionists in presence of the Channel waters, and of those autumn skies, or skies of summer, now radiant, now uncertain, which hung over the small ports and the rocky or chalk-cliff coasts, over the watering-places, Trouville, Dieppe, and over those larger harbours, with port and avant-port and bassin, of Dunkirk, of Havre.

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