Slum Synonyms

slŭm
Lacking worldly goods
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ghetto
  2. tenemental
  3. poverty-stricken
  4. crowded
A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. tenement
  2. skid-row
  3. low neighborhood
  4. cheap housing
  5. poor district
  6. tenement neighborhood
  7. tenderloin
  8. cabbage patch
  9. alley
  10. radio city
  11. ratnest
  12. the wrong side of the tracks
  13. barrio
  14. desolation row
  15. slum area
  16. harlem
  17. watts
  18. dump
  19. Hunter's Point
  20. ghetto
  21. tobacco-road

Words Related to Slum

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.

Related:

  1. poor
  2. shantytown
  3. the-slums
  4. shanty-town
  5. crime-ridden
  6. inner-city
  7. suburb

Slum Sentence Examples

  • I had lived in a tenement slum all my life.

  • It was barely evening but the darkening clouds and winter season begrimed the outside as black as a slum landlord's heart.

  • Most people of wooly good will lived outside the slum clearance areas.

  • Like many cities, slum housing close to the center had to be replaced.

  • The remarkable reforms he accomplished there may be ascertained from his Ten years in a Portsmouth slum (London 1896).

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