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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | destitute |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, beaten, beggared, broke, broken, defeated, derelict, destitute, finished, impoverished, in the gutter, in the poorhouse, in the red, insolvent, moneyless, needy, on the skids, out of funds, outcast, penniless, poverty-stricken, ruined, vagabond, vagrant |
| Antonyms: | rich, wealthy, well-to-do |
| Main Entry: | needy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived, impoverished |
| Synonyms: | beggared, dead broke, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down at heel, down to last cent, down-and-out, flat*, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, underprivileged, unprosperous |
| Antonyms: | affluent, rich, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poor |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking sufficient money |
| Synonyms: | bad off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, behind eight ball, broke*, destitute, dirt poor, down-and-out, empty-handed, flat broke, flat*, fortuneless, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in want, indigent, insolvent, low, meager, moneyless, necessitous, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, poverty-stricken, reduced, scanty*, stone broke, strapped, suffering, truly needy, underprivileged, unprosperous |
| Antonyms: | affluent, rich, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poverty-stricken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very poor |
| Synonyms: | bad off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, broke, broke*, destitute, dirt poor, distressed, down and out, down-and-out, hard up, impencunious, impoverished, in dire circumstances, in great need; financially poor, in want, indigent, miserably poor, moneyless, necessitous, needful, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, short*, stone broke, stranded, strapped, strapped, suffering, unmoneyed, wanting |
| Antonyms: | rich, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vagabond |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsettled; vagrant |
| Synonyms: | aimless, destitute, down-and-out, drifting, errant, fancy-free, fly-by-night, footloose, idle, itinerant, itinerate, journeying, mendicant, migratory, moving, nomadic, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, prodigal, rambling, roaming, rootless, roving, sauntering, shifting, shiftless, straggling, stray, strolling, transient, travelling, unsettled, wandering, wayfaring, wayward |
| Notes: | a vagabond refers to a person who leads a carefree, roaming existence; a vagrant ekes out a living by begging and is often considered a nuisance |
| Antonyms: | inhabiting, settled |
| Main Entry: | wretched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | terrible, very bad |
| Synonyms: | abject, afflicted, base, bummed, calamitous, cheap, contemptible, dejected, deplorable, depressed, despicable, disconsolate, distressed, dolorous, down, down-and-out, downcast, faulty, flimsy, forlorn, gloomy, hapless, hopeless, hurting, in the pits, inferior, low, low-down, mean, melancholy, miserable, paltry, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, shabby, shameful, sordid, sorrowful, sorry, spiritless, tragic, unfortunate, unhappy, vile, weak, woebegone, woeful, worthless |
| Antonyms: | good, nice |
| Main Entry: | beggarly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor |
| Synonyms: | abject, broke, destitute, down-and-out, inadequate, low, meager, mean, poverty-stricken |
| Antonyms: | luxurious, rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | necessitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor |
| Synonyms: | bad off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, behind eight ball, broke*, destitute, dirt poor, down-and-out, empty-handed, flat broke, flat*, fortuneless, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in want, indigent, insolvent, low, meager, moneyless, needy, on one's uppers, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, poverty-stricken, reduced*, scanty*, stone broke, strapped, suffering, truly needy, underprivileged, unprosperous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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