Thesaurus:impoverished

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

• affluent
• comfortably off
• flush
• loaded
• pecunious
• rich    [⇒ thesaurus]
• wealthy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• well-fixed
• well-heeled
• well off
• well-off
• well-to-do

Hypernyms

• lacking    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• underemployed
• underprivileged
• unemployed    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:poverty
• Thesaurus:pauper

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.

• “impoverished” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.