Poverty-stricken synonyms
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Part of speech:
Characterized by extreme poverty; impoverished
Entirely without money.
The definition of broke is having little or no money.
Depleted of valuable qualities or characteristics:
poor (related)
Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior:
wanting (related)
Absent; lacking:
Lacking the necessities of life; living in complete poverty
Reduced to poverty.
(Archaic) Lacking; destitute (of)
Desiring constant affirmation, lacking in self confidence
Alternative spelling of down and out.
(Informal) In great need of money
miserably poor
wealthy (antonym)
Of, characterized by, or suggestive of wealth or abundance
rich (antonym)
Highly varied, developed, or complex:
Like or fit for a beggar; very poor, worthless, inadequate, etc.
The definition of impecunious is a person without any money.
In great need; destitute; needy
on-one-s-uppers
underprivileged (related)
grinding-poverty (related)
downtrodden (related)
slum-dwellers (related)
Find another word for poverty-stricken. In this page you can discover 25 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for poverty-stricken, like: penurious, penniless, broke, bankrupt, poor, wanting, destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy and down-and-out.