Impoverished Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭm-pŏvə-rĭsht, -pŏvrĭsht
Lacking worldly goods
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. bankrupt
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Economically and socially below standard
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. backward
  2. depressed
  3. deprived
  4. disadvantaged
  5. underprivileged
Take away
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ruined
  2. exhausted
  3. deprived
  4. pauperized
  5. busted
  6. bankrupted
  7. broken
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Words Related to Impoverished

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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.

  • Nearly all of these deaths occur in impoverished parts of Africa and Asia, where they often result from contamination of the water supply by animal and human feces.

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