Definition for Destitution:

• The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.

Synonyms for Destitution:

• n.

  •
  • austerity,
  • the poorhouse,
  • gutter.
  •
  • rich.
  •adversity (noun)
  • curse,
  • trial,
  • bad luck,
  • agony,
  • blight,
  • tragedy,
  • adversity,
  • trouble,
  • mishap,
  • dolor,
  • infliction,
  • misadventure,
  • catastrophe,
  • ordeal,
  • woe,
  • contretemps,
  • affliction,
  • disaster,
  • rainy day,
  • torment,
  • grief,
  • bane,
  • tribulation,
  • misfortune,
  • difficulty,
  • burden,
  • hard luck,
  • calamity,
  • peril,
  • casualty.
  •bankruptcy (noun)
  • in-solvencies,
  • non payment,
  • destitutenesses,
  • non payments,
  • non-payments,
  • de-fault,
  • in-solvency,
  • in solvencies,
  • over drafts,
  • over-draft,
  • de fault,
  • over-drafts,
  • de faults,
  • pauperisms,
  • in solvency,
  • over draft,
  • de-faults.
  •beggary (noun)
  • Mendicity,
  • mendicancy.
  •deprivation (noun)
  • dis possession,
  • dis-advantage,
  • dis advantage,
  • dis-advantages,
  • dis-possession,
  • de-privation,
  • dis possessions,
  • with-holding,
  • divestments,
  • with holding,
  • de privation,
  • with holdings,
  • de privations,
  • with-holdings,
  • dis advantages,
  • dis-possessions,
  • de-privations.
  •distress (noun)
  • holy messes,
  • can worms,
  • dis tresses,
  • tough lucks,
  • rotten lucks,
  • dis tress,
  • dis-tresses,
  • dis-tress,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • mis fortune,
  • mis fortunes,
  • tough breaks,
  • ticklish spots,
  • unholy messes.
  •embarrassment (noun)
  • in-discretions,
  • un eases,
  • mis-takes,
  • un-easiness,
  • dis-composure,
  • in-discretion,
  • un easiness,
  • dis composure,
  • self-consciousnesses,
  • disconcertions,
  • mis takes,
  • egg face,
  • mis-take,
  • self consciousness,
  • dis composures,
  • un-ease,
  • in discretions,
  • un-easinesses,
  • un-eases,
  • in discretion,
  • selfconsciousnesses,
  • un ease,
  • selfconsciousness,
  • self consciousnesses,
  • awkward situations,
  • dis-composures,
  • mis take.
  •emptiness (noun)
  • de-solation,
  • desertednesses,
  • de-solations,
  • depletednesses,
  • inanitions,
  • de solations,
  • de solation.
  •griminess (noun)
  • un-cleanliness,
  • un-cleanness,
  • un cleanlinesses,
  • un cleanness,
  • un cleanliness,
  • un-cleanlinesses,
  • un cleannesses,
  • un-cleannesses,
  • uncleanlinesses.
  •hardship (noun)
  • dis-comforts,
  • herculean tasks,
  • uphill battles,
  • dis comforts,
  • dis-comfort,
  • mis-chances,
  • in juries,
  • mis-chance,
  • in-jury,
  • mis chance,
  • dis comfort,
  • mis chances,
  • in jury.
  •hollowness (noun)
  • vaccums.
  •poverty (noun)
  • impoverishment,
  • Beggarliness,
  • pennilessness,
  • asceticism,
  • dearth,
  • homelessness,
  • insolvency,
  • tenuity,
  • insufficiency,
  • paucity.
  •rack and ruin (noun)
  • blue ruins,
  • rack-ruin,
  • complete distructions,
  • rack ruin.
  •ruin (noun)
  • ruin,
  • havoc,
  • crackup,
  • crackups,
  • the end.
  •squalor (noun)
  • grunginess,
  • seediness.
  •state (noun)
  • destitution.
  •want (noun)
  • skimpinesses,
  • exiguousnesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Impecuniosity,
  • Neediness,
  • subsistence,
  • subsistence level,
  • penuriousness,
  • impecuniousness.
  •
  • poorhouse.
  •
  • necessity.
  •
  • need.

Paraphrases for Destitution:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    indigence, penury.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    starvation, dispossession, suffering, scarcity, shortage, plight, dismissal, impeachment, homelessness.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    misery, poverty, deprivation, squalor, impoverishment, destitute, privation, distress, hardship, wretchedness, helplessness, pittance.

Antonyms for Destitution:

• n.

  • indigence
    abundance.
  • Other antonyms:
    opulence, wealth, prosperity, richness, wealthiness, luxury, affluence.

Destitution Sentence Examples:

• On the other hand, although Leicester's complaints of the destitution of the English troops in the republic were almost as bitter, yet the condition of the United Provinces was comparatively healthy.

• But on the other hand, he has lost that guarantee against utter destitution and degradation afforded by the humanity of the better class of masters.

Homophones for Destitution:

• detection, destain, dedication, dukedom, digestion, Dagestani, decoction, disassociation, detestation, dash down, disdain, duck down, disesteem, dissociation, dustman, dictum, diction, dichotomy, dysthymia, degustation, Dutch Auction, doss down, desiccation, dissection, decussation, data system, deduction, destiny, Diastema, dejection, dictation, disquisition, destine, dessiatine, deoxycytidine.

Hyponym for Destitution:

• n.

  • state
    impoverishment, poverty, poorness.