Thesaurus:impoverished
English
Adjective
Sense: lacking financial means
Synonyms
- almsless
- arm [⇒ thesaurus]
- badly off
- bankrupt
- beggared
- beggarly
- boracic
- broke
- broken [⇒ thesaurus]
- broker than the Ten Commandments
- destitute
- dirt poor
- disadvantaged
- down and out
- down at heel
- down on one's luck
- down on one's uppers
- empty-handed
- feeling the pinch
- flat
- hard up
- impecunious
- impoverished
- in need
- indigent
- insolvent
- lower-class
- necessitous
- needy
- oofless (dated, UK, slang)
- pauperized
- penniless
- penurious
- pinched
- pok kai (Malaysia, slang)
- poor
- poor as a church mouse
- poor as a rat
- poor as Job
- possessionless
- poverty-ridden
- poverty-stricken
- shillingless
- skint
- stone-broke
- stony-broke
- strapped
- stuck (archaic, slang)
- threadbare (archaic or obsolete)
- unwealthy
- wealthless
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Various
See also
Further reading
- Roget's Thesaurus Classification
- Class V. Words Relating to the Voluntary Powers
- Division II. Intersocial Volition
- Section IV. Possessive Relations
- 4. Monetary Relations
- 804. “poverty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- 4. Monetary Relations
- Section IV. Possessive Relations
- Division II. Intersocial Volition
- Class V. Words Relating to the Voluntary Powers
- “impoverished” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.