Another word for impoverished | Synonyms for impoverished

Another word for impoverished

impoverished Synonyms

impoverished

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poverty-stricken, bankrupt, broke*; see insolvent, poor 1, ruined 4. See syn. study at poor.

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Another word for impoverished

adjective

Having little or no money or wealth:
beggarly, destitute, down-and-out, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken. (Informal) broke, strapped. Idioms: hard up, on one's uppers. See rich
Economically and socially below standard:
backward, depressed, deprived, disadvantaged, underprivileged. See rich

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The population was not only impoverished and reduced in numbers but broken in spirit.
Drought and famine came in 1860, and then upon the impoverished state came the strain of the Civil War.
And impoverished by the ravages of the Huns.
The crystals of impoverished lead which fall process.
The soil is generally rocky and unfertile, and the population impoverished, scanty and ignorant.

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