All destitute synonyms
desΒ·tiΒ·tute
D d adj destitute
- poor β having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
- strapped β needy; wanting: The company is rather strapped for funds.
- poverty-stricken β suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
- penniless β without any money whatsoever; totally impoverished; destitute.
- needy β in a condition of need or want; poverty-stricken; impoverished; extremely poor; destitute.
- insolvent β not solvent; unable to satisfy creditors or discharge liabilities, either because liabilities exceed assets or because of inability to pay debts as they mature.
- impoverished β reduced to poverty.
- indigent β lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.
- bankrupt β People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- bereft β If a person or thing is bereft of something, they no longer have it.
- deficient β If someone or something is deficient in a particular thing, they do not have the full amount of it that they need in order to function normally or work properly.
- drained β to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- flat β horizontally level: a flat roof.
- impecunious β having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- lacking β being without; not having; wanting; less: Lacking equipment, the laboratory couldn't undertake the research project.
- penurious β extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- stony β full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
- stripped β having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed: trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets.
- without β with the absence, omission, or avoidance of; not with; with no or none of; lacking: without help; without shoes; without her helping me; without him to help.
- necessitous β destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent: to aid a necessitous young mother.
- beggared β a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- busted β caught out doing something wrong and therefore in trouble
- dirt poor β lacking nearly all material means or resources for living.
- flat broke β having no money
- moneyless β any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- on the rocks β a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
- pinched β to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
- played out β a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- totaled β constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
- wiped out β completely exhausted.
adverb destitute
- feebly β physically weak, as from age or sickness; frail.
- helpless β unable to help oneself; weak or dependent: a helpless invalid.
- helplessly β unable to help oneself; weak or dependent: a helpless invalid.
- high and dry β having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
adjective destitute
noun destitute
- down and out β downward; going or directed downward: the down escalator.
- lazarus β the diseased beggar in the parable of the rich man and the beggar. Luke 16:19β31.
- have-not β Usually, have-nots. an individual or group that is without wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have).
- pauper β a person without any means of support, especially a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity.
- dependents β Plural form of dependent.