Synonyms for Poverty-stricken:

• adj.

  •beggarly (adjective)
  • in-adequate,
  • in adequate.
  •destitute (adjective)
  • penurious,
  • more moneyless,
  • totaled,
  • more totaled,
  • stripped,
  • more without,
  • most divested,
  • more beggared,
  • most totaled,
  • on breadline,
  • be-reft,
  • most busted,
  • more pinched,
  • be reft,
  • most without,
  • more busted,
  • most beggared,
  • on rocks,
  • in solvent,
  • most pinched,
  • most moneyless,
  • in-solvent,
  • more divested.
  •disadvantaged (adjective)
  • depressed.
  •down-and-out (adjective)
  • de relict,
  • in poorhouse,
  • out funds,
  • out cast,
  • more vagrant,
  • most vagrant,
  • de-relict,
  • most outcast,
  • in red,
  • in gutter,
  • more outcast,
  • outcast,
  • out-cast,
  • on skids.
  •impoverished (adjective)
  • havenot,
  • most havenot,
  • most have not,
  • most have-not,
  • more have-not,
  • have not,
  • most hurting,
  • more havenot,
  • more hurting,
  • more have not.
  •indigent (adjective)
  • down out,
  • in want.
  •miserable (adjective)
  • dis-graceful,
  • dis graceful,
  • de-testable,
  • scurvier,
  • de testable,
  • scurviest.
  •necessitous (adjective)
  • on one uppers,
  • on ones uppers,
  • on uppers,
  • on one's uppers.
  •needy (adjective)
  • down to last cent,
  • down at heel,
  • unprosperous.
  •penniless (adjective)
  • over barrel,
  • without dime,
  • down last penny,
  • tapped out.
  •poor (adjective)
  • busted,
  • pauper,
  • worse off,
  • dilapidated,
  • stone broke,
  • homeless,
  • struggling,
  • Fortuneless,
  • have-not,
  • distressed,
  • truly needy,
  • mean,
  • hard-pressed,
  • bankrupt,
  • poorer,
  • underfinanced,
  • beggarly,
  • embarrassed,
  • dispossessed,
  • behind eight ball,
  • empty-handed,
  • cash-starved,
  • cash-strapped,
  • underpaid,
  • scruffy,
  • hand-to-mouth,
  • bereft.
  •ruined (adjective)
  • most fleeced,
  • out business,
  • more fleeced,
  • gone under.
  •scrubby (adjective)
  • all the worse for wear,
  • poter,
  • down-at-heel,
  • Curer.
  •shabby (adjective)
  • dis-figured,
  • most frayed,
  • most deteriorating,
  • most degenerated,
  • more frayed,
  • dis-reputable,
  • motheaten,
  • de-solate,
  • more dog eared,
  • most dogeared,
  • most dog eared,
  • be-draggled,
  • rickety,
  • more disfigured,
  • dog eared,
  • gone seed,
  • be draggled,
  • de generated,
  • dis figured,
  • most dog-eared,
  • most disfigured,
  • dis reputable,
  • dogeared,
  • more degenerated,
  • more deteriorating,
  • more dog-eared,
  • de solate,
  • more dogeared,
  • de-generated.
  •squalid (adjective)
  • un cleaner,
  • un-kemptest,
  • brokendown,
  • un clean,
  • un kemptest,
  • un-cleaner,
  • re-eking,
  • un-cleanest,
  • dis-gusting,
  • un kempter,
  • un kempt,
  • re eking,
  • un-kempter,
  • un cleanest,
  • dis gusting,
  • most reeking,
  • more reeking,
  • un-kempt.
  •very poor (adjective)
  • in great need; financially poor.

• Other synonyms:

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  • slum.
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  • Strapped,
  • impecunious,
  • broke.
  •Other relevant words:
  • difficult,
  • lean,
  • stony,
  • Deteriorated,
  • in the red,
  • in bad straits,
  • Unmoneyed,
  • needful,
  • flat,
  • ghettoized,
  • impeccable,
  • starveling,
  • badly off,
  • hard,
  • stony-broke,
  • desolate,
  • wretched,
  • oppressed,
  • slummy,
  • dead,
  • rock,
  • Pauperized,
  • up against it,
  • tumbledown,
  • bad,
  • impencunious,
  • back-alley,
  • dingy,
  • in dire straits,
  • underprivileged,
  • suffering,
  • unsophisticated,
  • fortune,
  • seedy,
  • short,
  • on the dole,
  • insufficient,
  • dirt-poor,
  • insolvent,
  • innocent,
  • ramshackle,
  • wiped out,
  • inadequate,
  • straitened,
  • Stoney,
  • in need,
  • reduced,
  • pinched,
  • miserably poor,
  • sordid,
  • in reduced circumstances,
  • in dire circumstances,
  • wanting,
  • landless,
  • stranded,
  • skint,
  • mendicant,
  • deprived,
  • upper,
  • barren,
  • disadvantaged,
  • in rags,
  • sleazy,
  • Fleeced,
  • bust,
  • famished,
  • on the bum,
  • devoid,
  • bereaved,
  • financially embarrassed,
  • down-at-the-heel,
  • seamy.

Paraphrases for Poverty-stricken:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    impoverished, indigent, destitute.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    disadvantaged, underprivileged, anti-poverty, poverty-reducing, difficult, resource-poor, underdeveloped.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    poor, poorer, poverty, needy, low-income.

Antonyms for Poverty-stricken:

• adj.

  • very poor
    affluent, wealthy, lucky, rich, happy.
  • Other antonyms:
    fat, well-to-do, opulent, moneyed, prosperous, flush, comfortable, well-off, fat cat, deep-pocketed, well-heeled.