Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts.

synonym: bankrupt.

Roget 808: nonpayment; default, defalcation; protest, repudiation; application of the sponge^†; whitewashing.    insolvency, bankruptcy, failure; insufficiency etc. 640; run upon a bank; overdrawn account.    waste paper bonds; dishonored bills, protested bills; bogus check, bogus cheque, rubber check.    bankrupt, insolvent, debtor, lame duck, man of straw, welsher, stag, defaulter, levanter^†.    ... show more

Polish: bankrut

Unable to meet or discharge financial obligations.

Roget 808: not paying, non-paying, non-performing; in debt etc. 806; behindhand, in arrear^†, behind in payments, in arrears; beggared etc. (poor) 804; unable to make both ends meet, minus; worse than nothing; worthless.    insolvent, bankrupt, in the gazette, gazetted.    unpaid etc. (outstanding) 806; gratis etc. 815; unremunerated.    ... show more

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.    ... show more

Roget 806: indebted; liable, chargeable, answerable for.    in debt, in embarrassed circumstances, in difficulties; incumbered, involved; involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt, over one's head in debt, over head and ears in debt; deeply involved; fast tied up; insolvent etc. (not paying) 808; minus, out of pocket.    unpaid; unrequited, unrewarded; owing, due, in arrear^†, outstanding; past due.    ... show more

Dutch: insolvent