English Explanatory Dictionary

impoverished

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/ /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-impoverished.wav

Word forms

impoverished more impoverished most impoverished

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

Antonyms

affluent comfortably off flush loaded pecunious rich wealthy well-fixed well-heeled well off well-off well-to-do

Related words

having undergone loss of features underemployed underprivileged unemployed poverty pauper

Derived words

impoverishedly impoverishedness unimpoverished
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