War, disease, and famine continue to ravage the poverty-stricken country, despite the decades-long international effort to ameliorate the situation.
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Poverty-stricken
Synonyms for "poverty-stricken" (78 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (39)
Adjective(27 words)
insolventlower-classmoneylessnecessitousneedyooflesspauperizedpennilesspenuriouspinchedpok kaipoorpoor as a church mousepoor as a ratpoor as jobpossessionlesspoverty-riddenshillinglessskintstone-broke
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Adjective(2 words)
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16 translations across 7 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 窘促 adj (very poor)
- 貧困 /贫困 adj (very poor)
- 貧窮 /贫穷 adj (very poor)
Finnish
1 entries- rutiköyhä adj (very poor)
French
1 entries- miséreux adj (very poor)
Irish
1 entries- ocrach adj (very poor)
Māori
3 entries- pakukore adj (very poor)
- pākorehā adj (very poor)
- tuakoka adj (very poor)
Spanish
4 entries- carenciado adj (very poor)
- desposeído adj (very poor)
- indigente adj (very poor)
- pauperizado adj (very poor)
Ukrainian
2 entries- злиде́нний adj (very poor)
- нужде́нний adj (very poor)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The village was poverty-stricken.
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The small village was poverty-stricken, with many families struggling to afford even basic necessities like food and water.
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