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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

so poor as to be destitute, living in poverty;

e.g. Their family lived in poverty-stricken squalor as they huddled together for warmth in the dark, damp alley for bed.

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Similar Words

And

Beggarly

Broke

Cash-strapped

Destitute

Dirt-poor

Dispossessed

Down-and-out

Famished

Impecunious

Impoverished

Indigent

Insolvent

Needful

Needy

Penniless

Penurious

Poor

Skint

Threadbare

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Opposite Words

Advantaged

Affluent

Comfortable

Fat

Fat cat

Flush

Loaded

Moneyed

Monied

Opulent

Propertied

Prosperous

Rich

Silk

Silk-stocking

Wealthy

Well-heeled

Well-off

Well-to-do

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Related Words

Bankrupt

Bust

Cash-strapped

Depressed

Deprived

Disadvantaged

Dispossessed

Distressed

Hand-to-mouth

Hardscrabble

Insolvent

Low

Short

Underprivileged

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