Thesaurus:impoverished

Thesaurus:impoverished

THESAURUS

impoverished

English

Synonyms

• almsless

• arm    [WS]

• badly off

• bankrupt

• beggared

• beggarly

• boracic

• broke

• broken    [WS]

• broker than the Ten Commandments

• dead broke

• destitute

• dirt poor

• down and out

• down on one's luck

• empty-handed

• flat

• flat broke

• hard up

• impecunious

• impoverished

• in need

• indigent

• insolvent

• lower-class

• necessitous

• needy

• oofless (dated, UK, slang)

• pauperized

• penniless

• penurious

• pinched

• 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

• wealthless

Antonyms

• rich

• wealthy    [WS]

• affluent

Various

• underemployed

• underprivileged

• unemployed    [WS]

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.