Destitute

//ˈdɛstɪtʃuːt//

Synonyms for "destitute" (86 found)

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Closest matches (18)

badly off bankrupt bare beggared bereft of broke broken busted deficient depleted deprived deprived of desolate destitute of

Adjective(3 words)

barren bereft close to the bone

Adjective(1 words)

barren

Strong matches (25)

Adjective(3 words)

devoid free impoverished

devoid of divested down and out down-and-out drained empty exhausted failed fortune fortuneless hard up heel homeless impeccable impecunious impoverished in need in receivership in the gutter in the red

Adjective(2 words)

down and out emptyhanded

Related words (43)

in want indigent innocent insolvent landless lean low moneyless necessitous needy nonexistent on the rocks out of funds penniless penurious poor poverty poverty stricken poverty-stricken propertyless

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rock ruined stony straitened strapped stripped unprosperous upper voiceless void without without a sou

Adjective(5 words)

indigent innocent necessitous needy poverty-stricken

Noun(1 words)

nillionaire

Adjective(5 words)

penniless poor as a church mouse stony stuck threadbare

Related word relations

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6 relation types

Synonyms

1 entries

poverty stricken

defined as

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result of bourgiose governance

derived

2 entries

destitutely destituteness

is a

1 entries

lacking food or shelter

related to

4 entries

devoid impoverish lacking strip

similar

3 entries

nonexistent poor

Translations

21 translations across 8 languages.

Dutch

1 entries

onbemiddeld adj (poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken)

Finnish

4 entries

köyhä adj (poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken)
vailla adj (lacking something, devoid)
varaton adj (poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken)
köyhdyttää verb (to impoverish)

French

2 entries

démuni adj (poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken)
indigent adj (poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken)

Hindi

1 entries

निराश्रित adj (poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

فقیر adj (poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken)
یوقسول adj (poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken)

Polish

2 entries

pozbawiony (czegoś) adj (lacking something, devoid)
ubogi adj (poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken)

Spanish

4 entries

desprovisto adj (lacking something, devoid)
destituido adj (lacking something, devoid)
indigente adj (lacking something, devoid)
muerto de hambre adj (poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken)

Ukrainian

2 entries

бідний adj (poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken)
нужденний adj (poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken)

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Source: tatoeba (3563726)

Daphnis could not find fault with her advice, but being quite destitute of the means which might insure success to his suit, he burst into tears, as most poor lovers usually do; and then he again invoked the assistance of the Nymphs.

Source: tatoeba (6213198)

Sami's arrest left his family destitute.

Source: tatoeba (6693829)

The church was a safe haven for the destitute paupers.

Source: tatoeba (8424509)

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