Synonyms of the word destitute


DESTITUTEBARREN - DEVOID - EMPTY - IMPOVERISHED - INDIGENT - INNOCENT - NECESSITOUS - NEEDY - POOR - POVERTY-STRICKEN

destitute

  • adj. Lacking something; devoid; especially lacking money; poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken.
  • v. (transitive) To impoverish; to strip of wealth, resources, etc.

barren

  • adj. (not comparable) Unable to bear children; sterile.
  • adj. Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.
  • adj. Bleak.
  • adj. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
  • adj. Mentally dull; stupid.
  • n. An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.

devoid

  • adj. empty; having none of; completely without.
  • v. (obsolete) To empty out; to remove.

empty

  • adj. Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
  • adj. (computing, programming) Containing no elements (as of a string or array), opposed to being null (having…
  • adj. (obsolete) Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
  • adj. Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
  • adj. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
  • adj. Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
  • adj. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
  • adj. (obsolete) Producing nothing; unfruitful; said of a plant or tree.
  • adj. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
  • n. A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.

impoverished

  • adj. Reduced to poverty.
  • adj. Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of impoverish.

indigent

  • adj. Poor; destitute; in need.
  • n. A person in need, or in poverty.

innocent

  • adj. Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
  • adj. Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
  • adj. Naive; artless.
  • adj. (obsolete) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless.
  • adj. (with of) Having no knowledge (of something).
  • adj. (with of) Lacking (something).
  • adj. Lawful; permitted.
  • adj. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.
  • n. Those who are innocent; young children.

necessitous

  • adj. (archaic) Needy, indigent, destitute, poor.
  • adj. (archaic) In need, lacking (Can we verify([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])

needy

  • adj. In need, poor.
  • adj. Desiring constant affirmation, lacking in self confidence.

poor

  • adj. With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
  • adj. Of low quality.
  • adj. Used to express pity.
  • adj. Deficient in a specified way.
  • adj. Inadequate, insufficient.
  • adj. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
  • n. (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

poverty-stricken

  • adj. Very poor.

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