adj, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of impoverish form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1. 1
   Reduced to poverty.
2. 2
   Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.

   "English has an impoverished inflectional system."

Adjective

1. 1
   destroyed financially wordnet
2. 2
   poor enough to need help from others wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

badly offbankruptbeggarlydestituteimpecuniousin need

Antonyms

All antonyms

affluentcomfortably offflushloaded

Example

More examples

"Haiti is a nation that seems hopelessly impoverished."

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