English Explanatory Dictionary

bankrupt

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
  2. Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.
verb
  1. To force into bankruptcy.
  2. to get placed last in Tycoon with the bankruptcy rule
noun
  1. One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person; a bankruptee.
  2. A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

Pronunciation

/ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt/ /ˈbæŋk.ɹʌpt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bankrupt.wav /ˈbeɪ̯ŋk.ɹəpt/ /ˈbeɪ̯ŋk.ɹʌpt/

Word forms

bankrupt more bankrupt most bankrupt bankrupts bankrupting bankrupted

Etymology

Partial calque of Italian bancarotta (literally “a broken bench”), from banca (“bank”, literally “bench”) + rotta (“broken, rupted”), which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken, signifying that the working moneylender was insolvent.

Synonyms

almsless arm badly off bankrupt beggared beggarly boracic broke broken broker than the Ten Commandments depauperate destitute dirt poor disadvantaged down and out down at heel down on one's luck down on one's uppers empty-handed feeling the pinch flat goodless hard up impecunious impoverished in need indigent insolvent lower-class necessitous needy oofless pauperized penniless penurious pinched pok kai 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 stuck threadbare unwealthy wealthless

Related words

defunct illiquid insolvent

Derived words

bankrupt cart bankruptcy bankruptee bankrupter bankruptism bankruptlike bankruptly bankruptness bankruptship bankrupt worm go bankrupt morally bankrupt nonbankrupt rebankrupt unbankrupt unbankrupted wankrupt
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