What is another word for destitute?
553 synonyms found
What is a destitute person?
What happens to a destitute person?
How do you know if someone is destitute?
Pronunciation:
[ dˈɛstɪtjˌuːt], [ dˈɛstɪtjˌuːt], [ d_ˈɛ_s_t_ɪ_t_j_ˌuː_t]
Related words: poverty, help the destitute, the destitute population, homeless people, homeless man, homeless woman, the destitute of society, someone who is destitute
Related questions:
Table of Contents
Similar words for destitute:
- abandoned (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- bankrupt (adjective)
- bereft (adjective)
- broke (adjective)
- deficient (adjective)
- depleted (adjective)
- devoid (adjective)
- disadvantaged (adjective)
- down-and-out (adjective)
- down and out; wanting (adjective)
- downtrodden (adjective)
- empty (adjective)
- forlorn (adjective)
- forsaken (adjective)
- helpless (adjective)
- homeless (adjective)
- impecunious (adjective)
- impoverished (adjective)
- indigent (adjective)
- infelicitous (adjective)
- insufficient (adjective)
- lonely (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- necessitous (adjective)
- needy (adjective)
- oppressed (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- penniless (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- poverty-stricken (adjective)
- underprivileged (adjective)
- unfortunate (adjective)
- vagabond (adjective)
- void (adjective)
- wanting (adjective)
- helplessly (adverb)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- have-not (noun)
- impoverished (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- pauper (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
Synonyms for Destitute:
adj.
• abandoned (adjective) • all (adjective) • bankrupt (adjective) • bereft (adjective)- most fleeced,
- most beggared,
- be reft,
- most shorn,
- be-reft,
- more dispossessed,
- most dispossessed,
- more bereaved,
- most divested,
- be-reaved,
- more without,
- dis possessed,
- more fleeced,
- more divested,
- most bereaved,
- more robbed,
- more shorn,
- more beggared,
- most robbed,
- dis-possessed,
- stripped,
- most without,
- minus,
- be reaved.
- most collapsed,
- more emptied,
- more fargone,
- de creased,
- de-creased,
- more decreased,
- more lessened,
- most depreciated,
- more far-gone,
- more far gone,
- most fargone,
- most decreased,
- most lessened,
- most far-gone,
- more collapsed,
- most sapped,
- fargone,
- most far gone,
- most emptied,
- more depreciated,
- kaput,
- more sapped.
- in gutter,
- most outcast,
- de relict,
- more outcast,
- in red,
- de-relict,
- more vagrant,
- more moneyless,
- in poorhouse,
- most moneyless,
- out-cast,
- most vagrant,
- out cast,
- on skids,
- outcast,
- out funds.
- drained,
- wiped out,
- deficient,
- pinched,
- flat,
- deprived of,
- stony,
- insolvent,
- exhausted,
- totaled,
- on the breadline,
- Divested,
- on the rocks,
- Without,
- busted,
- dead broke.
- under one thumb,
- more tyrannized,
- most suppressed,
- in one's clutches,
- at ones beck and call,
- at one beck call,
- most have not,
- most underfoot,
- most have-not,
- at one beck and call,
- at ones feet,
- in one power,
- most havenot,
- under ones thumb,
- at feet,
- in ones power,
- most mistreated,
- most maltreated,
- underfoot,
- more mistreated,
- most persecuted,
- more suppressed,
- under-foot,
- over come,
- most underdog,
- Tyrannized,
- at ones beck call,
- more subjugated,
- under-dog,
- at one mercy,
- at beck call,
- at one's beck call,
- mis-treated,
- more have not,
- more have-not,
- most tyrannized,
- most subjugated,
- more maltreated,
- in one pocket,
- more persecuted,
- in ones pocket,
- mis treated,
- a slave to,
- in clutches,
- at ones mercy,
- at mercy,
- led by nose,
- under dog,
- more underfoot,
- at one feet,
- more havenot,
- in one clutches,
- in ones clutches,
- in pocket,
- in one's power,
- more underdog.
- un-furnished,
- un furnished,
- de spoiled,
- un-occupied,
- de-solate,
- more vacated,
- un occupied,
- more unfurnished,
- un-filled,
- de-sert,
- un filled,
- de-spoiled,
- most evacuated,
- most despoiled,
- un inhabited,
- most unfurnished,
- most vacated,
- more evacuated,
- un-inhabited,
- more despoiled,
- de sert,
- wastest,
- unfilled,
- de solate.
- un happy,
- down out,
- de-stroyed,
- un-happy,
- un happiest,
- un happier,
- in the dumps,
- forgotten,
- in dumps,
- de stroyed.
- most disowned,
- more ignored,
- left in the lurch,
- left altar,
- more marooned,
- most ignored,
- most marooned,
- dis-owned,
- left at altar,
- left the altar,
- dis owned,
- more disowned.
- impotent,
- inefficient,
- basket-case,
- in firm,
- helpless,
- up creek without paddle,
- with hands tied,
- unprotected.
- un welcome,
- more banished,
- most deported,
- more disinherited,
- without roof,
- de ported,
- more houseless,
- more uncared for,
- un-settled,
- more deported,
- most disinherited,
- more exiled,
- un-housed,
- more refugee,
- more uncaredfor,
- most uncaredfor,
- de-ported,
- most uncared for,
- dis inherited,
- unwelcome,
- more unhoused,
- uncaredfor,
- most exiled,
- un settled,
- un housed,
- un-welcome,
- most uncared-for,
- more estranged,
- dis-placed,
- most refugee,
- most houseless,
- uncared-for,
- most unhoused,
- more uncared-for,
- most banished,
- dis-inherited,
- most estranged,
- dis placed.
- un-social,
- more unsocial,
- more uncherished,
- most troglodytic,
- more troglodytic,
- more apart,
- with-drawn,
- un social,
- most uncherished,
- un cherished,
- more reclusive,
- most unbefriended,
- un attended,
- un-cherished,
- un befriended,
- un-befriended,
- most apart,
- most unsocial,
- un-attended,
- more renounced,
- most renounced,
- with drawn,
- more unbefriended.
- penniless,
- forlorn,
- buster,
- in default,
- unsocial,
- at one's feet,
- in power,
- left at the altar,
- rootless,
- in a bad way,
- unprovided with,
- down to last penny,
- Sans,
- in the gutter,
- oppressed,
- Beggared,
- broke,
- Houseless,
- ill-chosen,
- all in,
- out of funds,
- moneyless,
- not good enough,
- Unmoneyed,
- vagabond,
- devoid,
- lonely,
- on the skids,
- at one's beck and call,
- cleaned out,
- unfurnished,
- under thumb,
- sucked out,
- impecunious,
- uncherished,
- in the poorhouse,
- left without,
- needy,
- under foot,
- led by the nose,
- poverty-stricken,
- down-and-out,
- bad off,
- dirt poor,
- Unbefriended,
- played out,
- washed out,
- not up to par,
- impencunious,
- impoverished,
- Tenantless,
- hard up,
- stone broke,
- in great need; financially poor,
- unfortunate,
- free from,
- perambulatory,
- without resources,
- infelicitous,
- depleted,
- out of luck,
- far-gone,
- miserably poor,
- at one's mercy,
- by oneself,
- Unhoused,
- left behind,
- downtrodden,
- void,
- uncared for,
- under one's thumb,
- parted from,
- itinerate,
- without a dime,
- lorn,
- bankrupt,
- out of,
- short of,
- on last leg,
- devoid of,
- in want,
- thrown over,
- out of gas,
- in need of,
- down and out,
- without a roof,
- at beck and call,
- in one's pocket,
- homeless,
- deprived,
- poor,
- used up,
- flat broke,
- Troglodytic,
- bereft.
- worse off,
- hand-to-mouth,
- stony-broke,
- squalid,
- truly needy,
- distressed,
- underfinanced,
- badly off,
- embarrassed,
- scruffy,
- mean,
- poorer,
- shabby,
- behind eight ball,
- landless,
- underprivileged,
- dilapidated,
- underpaid,
- struggling,
- cash-starved,
- unsophisticated,
- in need,
- cash-strapped,
- hard-pressed,
- dispossessed,
- Fortuneless,
- empty-handed,
- beggarly.
- un moneyed,
- more unmoneyed,
- more impencunious,
- un-moneyed,
- povertystricken,
- poverty stricken,
- most unmoneyed,
- needful,
- most impencunious,
- in dire circumstances.
- un-favorable,
- un-fortunate,
- un becoming,
- in-appropriate,
- jinxed,
- most shattered,
- un fortunate,
- un propitious,
- more jinxed,
- un suitable,
- un-suitable,
- starcrossed,
- in appropriate,
- more shattered,
- in opportune,
- un-becoming,
- un favorable,
- most jinxed,
- Star-crossed,
- star crossed,
- un-successful,
- out luck,
- in-opportune,
- in bad way,
- un successful.
- most shifting,
- more journeying,
- more strolling,
- more straggling,
- perambulant,
- fly by night,
- most journeying,
- most perambulatory,
- more drifting,
- more rootless,
- more perambulatory,
- most mendicant,
- more sauntering,
- most travelling,
- more perambulant,
- most drifting,
- fancy free,
- most perambulant,
- more travelling,
- most rootless,
- most itinerate,
- most strolling,
- most sauntering,
- more mendicant,
- fancyfree,
- most straggling,
- more itinerate,
- peripatetic.
- un-fulfilled,
- sub-standard,
- dis appointing,
- un-sounder,
- more away,
- most unfulfilled,
- un sound,
- most cooked,
- un sounder,
- dis-appointing,
- sub standard,
- more cooked,
- not to par,
- not par,
- un fulfilled,
- not up par,
- out gas,
- most away,
- un-sound,
- more unfulfilled,
- co oked,
- un-soundest,
- unfulfilled,
- co-oked.
adv.
• helplessly (adverb)adv
• Other relevant words: (adverb)n.
• have-not (noun) • impoverished (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun) • pauper (noun)v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
-
•
- empty.
-
•
- Strapped.
-
•
- lacking.
How to use "Destitute" in context?
In a world where over 67 million people are living inextreme poverty, a term that has come to represent people who have little to nothing, destitution is something that most people cannot fathom. In fact, according to the World Bank, it is now considered to be an "extreme poverty" category, one that is defined by a lack of adequate housing, food, medical help, and other basic needs. In many countries, including the United States, it has become commonplace for families to live in cramped, substandard conditions, with no hope of ever escaping the cycle of poverty.
Paraphrases for Destitute:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
- highest relevancy
- medium relevancy
- lowest relevancy
-
Equivalence
-
Adjective
dispossessed, impoverished, indigent, needy, poverty-stricken.
-
Proper noun, singular
indigent.
-
Verb, base form
indigent.
-
Adjective
-
Independent
-
Adjective
defenceless, depressed, desperate, distressed, fortunate, miserable, powerless, well-off, wretched, low-income.
-
Adjective
-
Other Related
-
Adjective
disadvantaged, disenfranchised, helpless, indigence, misery, poor, underprivileged.
-
Adjective
Homophones for Destitute:
- dazed, due east, degust, desuetude, decussate, deduct, digested, decoct, detected, decidua, dust, decided, disgusted, diskette, dished, desiccated, digit, deject, disassociate, dejected, decide, dodge city, dissected, disguised, dig out, dosed, dog-sized, digitate, deist, deuced, death squad, dicky-seat, dacite, digest, discoid, dissuade, dugout, detect, die-cast, dictate, dickie-seat, dacoity, desist, dogged, docket, dakota, dissociate, dockside, dickey-seat, deck out, duct, detached, dighted, dissect, dashed, ducat, dakoity, detest, decayed, due west, deceased, dusty, dziggetai, dickhead, disgust, dytiscidae, due south, diazoxide, duckweed, doughty, duck shot, De Sade, death seat, dagda, disquieted, dioxide, dogwood, dictated, detoxicate, dish out, dedicate, disquietude, dakoit, deceit, decked, dacoit, diseased, dead set, decked out, death's head, disused, decade, detested, dasyatidae, dedicated, dead weight, dogtooth, do good, disquiet, do-si-do, desiccate, decode, dicot.
Word of the Day
lifejackets
- Synonyms:
- lifeboats.
