What is another word for poverty-stricken?
270 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ pˈɒvətistɹˈɪkən], [ pˈɒvətistɹˈɪkən], [ p_ˈɒ_v_ə_t_i_s_t_ɹ_ˈɪ_k_ə_n]Table of Contents
Similar words for poverty-stricken:- beggarly (adjective)
- destitute (adjective)
- disadvantaged (adjective)
- down-and-out (adjective)
- impoverished (adjective)
- indigent (adjective)
- miserable (adjective)
- necessitous (adjective)
- needy (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- penniless (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- ruined (adjective)
- scrubby (adjective)
- shabby (adjective)
- squalid (adjective)
- very poor (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Paraphrases for poverty-stricken
Opposite words for poverty-stricken:Synonyms for Poverty-stricken:
adj.
•beggarly (adjective) •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.
- 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.
- havenot,
- most havenot,
- most have not,
- most have-not,
- more have-not,
- have not,
- most hurting,
- more havenot,
- more hurting,
- more have not.
- destitute,
- scurvy,
- hard up,
- needy,
- penniless,
- cleaned out,
- devoid of,
- poor,
- down-and-out,
- broken down,
- scrubby,
- worse for wear,
- Beggared,
- down and out,
- impoverished,
- squalid,
- dead broke,
- in need of,
- dirt poor,
- on the skids,
- deprived of,
- played out,
- on the rocks,
- dog-eared,
- moneyless,
- without a dime,
- in the gutter,
- flat broke,
- on last leg,
- shabby,
- gone to seed,
- miserable,
- in the poorhouse,
- out of funds,
- down to last penny,
- tatty,
- wornout,
- on the breadline,
- ruined,
- bad off.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
•Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
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- slum.
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- Strapped,
- impecunious,
- broke.
- 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.
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Adjective
impoverished, indigent, destitute.
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Independent
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Adjective
disadvantaged, underprivileged, anti-poverty, poverty-reducing, difficult, resource-poor, underdeveloped.
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Antonyms for Poverty-stricken:
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adj.
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Other antonyms:
fat, well-to-do, opulent, moneyed, prosperous, flush, comfortable, well-off, fat cat, deep-pocketed, well-heeled.
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