destitute as an adjective: - 1
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destitute
adjective
1 destitute
Poor enough to need help from others.
synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken.
Roget 804:
poor,
indigent;
poverty-stricken;
badly off,
poorly off,
ill off;
poor as a rat,
poor as a church mouse,
poor as a Job;
fortuneless†,
dowerless†,
moneyless†,
penniless;
unportioned†,
unmoneyed†;
impecunious;
out of money,
out of cash,
short of money,
short of cash;
without a rap,
not worth a rap
etc.
(money)
800;
qui n'a pas le sou [Fr.],
out of pocket,
hard up;
out at elbows,
out at heels;
seedy,
bare-footed;
beggarly,
beggared;
destitute;
fleeced,
stripped;
bereft,
bereaved;
reduced;
homeless.
in want
etc.
n.;
needy,
necessitous,
distressed,
pinched,
straitened;
put to one's shifts,
put to one's last shifts;
unable to keep the wolf from the door,
unable to make both ends meet;
embarrassed,
under hatches;
involved
etc.
(in debt)
806;
insolvent
etc.
(not paying)
808.
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2 destitute
Moby thesaurus: badly off, bankrupt, bereft of, broke, broken, busted, deficient, depleted, deprived of, destitute of, devoid of, divested, down-and-out, drained, empty, exhausted, failed, fortuneless, hard up, homeless, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in receivership, in the gutter, in the red, in want, indigent, innocent, insolvent, landless, moneyless, necessitous, needy, on the rocks, out of funds, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty, poverty-stricken, propertyless, ruined, stripped, void, without, without a sou ... show more.
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