Impoverished Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭm-pŏvə-rĭsht, -pŏvrĭsht
Lacking worldly goods
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. bankrupt
Economically and socially below standard
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. backward
  2. depressed
  3. deprived
  4. disadvantaged
  5. underprivileged

Words Related to Impoverished

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Impoverished Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • The soil is generally rocky and unfertile, and the population impoverished, scanty and ignorant.

  • Primary PEM is common in impoverished areas of developing countries.

  • The destruction of property was enormous, the hardest-working and best tax-paying element in the country was destroyed, or impoverished, and where the breadwinners were killed the women and children were left destitute.

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