Insolvent

//ɪnˈsɒlv.ənt//

Synonyms for "insolvent" (48 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (10)

bankrupt belly up broke broken busted destitute down-and-out embarrassed

Noun(1 words)

bankrupt

Adjective(1 words)

close to the bone

Strong matches (14)

Adjective(3 words)

emptyhanded hard up indigent

failed failure fortuneless homeless impoverished in queer street in receivership in the gutter in the red indebted

Noun(1 words)

indigent

Related words (24)

insolvent debtor lame duck landless moneyless needy on the rocks out of funds pauper penniless poor propertyless ruined straitened unsound wiped out without a sou

Noun(1 words)

pauper

Adjective(7 words)

penurious poor poor as a church mouse poverty-stricken stony stuck threadbare

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

More general

4 entries

failure loser nonstarter unsuccessful person

Antonyms

2 entries

solvent

Synonyms

1 entries

bankrupt

derived

2 entries

insolvency insolvently

derived from

1 entries

solvent

has context

1 entries

legal

related to

1 entries

debtor

similar

3 entries

bankrupt belly up belly-up

Translations

32 translations across 24 languages.

Afrikaans

2 entries

bankrot adj (Unable to pay)
insolvent adj (Unable to pay)

Belarusian

1 entries

неплацежаздо́льны adj (Unable to pay)

Bulgarian

2 entries

банкрутирал adj (Unable to pay)
несъстоятелен adj (Unable to pay)

Catalan

1 entries

insolvent adj (Unable to pay)

Czech

2 entries

insolventní adj (Unable to pay)
platebně neschopný adj (Unable to pay)

Danish

1 entries

insolvent adj (Unable to pay)

Finnish

1 entries

maksukyvytön adj (Unable to pay)

French

1 entries

insolvable adj (Unable to pay)

German

2 entries

insolvent adj (Unable to pay)
zahlungsunfähig adj (Unable to pay)

Greek

1 entries

χρεωκοπημένος adj (Unable to pay)

Hungarian

2 entries

fizetésképtelen adj (Unable to pay)
fizetőképtelen adj (Unable to pay)

Italian

1 entries

insolvente adj (Unable to pay)

Macedonian

2 entries

инсолвентен adj (Unable to pay)
несолвентен adj (Unable to pay)

Manx

1 entries

neuhoogh adj (Unable to pay)

Māori

1 entries

pēkerapu adj (Unable to pay)

Norman

1 entries

însolvabl'ye adj (Unable to pay)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

betalingsudyktig adj (Unable to pay)
insolvent adj (Unable to pay)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

insolvent adj (Unable to pay)

Polish

1 entries

niewypłacalny adj (Unable to pay)

Portuguese

1 entries

insolvente adj (Unable to pay)

Romanian

2 entries

insolvabil adj (Unable to pay)
insolvent adj (Unable to pay)

Russian

1 entries

неплатёжеспосо́бный adj (Unable to pay)

Spanish

1 entries

insolvente adj (Unable to pay)

Ukrainian

1 entries

неплатоспромо́жний adj (Unable to pay)

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He was declared insolvent.

Source: tatoeba (303568)

Investigators found that the company had continued to trade while insolvent in the months leading up to its collapse.

Source: tatoeba (3626115)

The company will soon be insolvent.

Source: tatoeba (10240111)

In Lugansk and Donetsk, Ukraine, there are now quite a few Russian mercenaries who are actually insolvent debtors. Moscow repays the debts of these "volunteers" at the rate of a hundred dollars a day.

Source: tatoeba (10636436)

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