poverty-strickenadj.

Brit.

/ˈpɒvətɪˌstrɪk(ə)n/, U.S.

/ˈpɑvərdiˌstrɪk(ə)n/

Forms: see poverty n. and stricken adj. II.; also 1800s poverty-strick (U.S.).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: poverty n., stricken adj.

Etymology: < poverty n. + stricken adj. Compare earlier poverty-struck adj.

Suffering from poverty; reduced to great poverty; extremely poor or destitute. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > reduced to poverty

broken-fortuned1362

depauperatea1464

peeled?a1513

extenuate1533

withered1561

penured1570

low-ebbed1595

ruined1596

shredded1596

broken1597

beggared1609

impoverisheda1631

necessitated1646

pinched1672

crazy1700

reduced1715

straitened1716

crazed1732

poverty-struck?1750

poverty-stricken?1786

pauperized1807

poverty-smitten1819

distressed1844

out at elbows1885

poverished1900

wiped1977

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > bald

barrena1387

baldc1390

meagre1539

barec1540

starved1604

poor1842

poverty-stricken1865

1776 N. B. Halhed tr. Code Gentoo Laws 46 The Fruits of the Earth are produced in less Plenty, and the Reyots also are stricken with Poverty.]

?1786 Proc. Meeting held Theatre in Calcutta 7 Our families must..be reduced to a state still more humiliating, of pinching, but silent penury and want, poverty stricken with shame, and shrinking from the eye of the world.

1803 M. Wilmot Let. 1 Oct. in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) i. 55 Amidst such a multitude of titles a count or countess is often the merest poverty stricken low bread [sic] animal that ever was known.

1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 44 If you profess..the possession of the pure truth, do not appear to be so poverty-stricken as to array your thoughts in the tatters of the cast off Bible.

1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind v. 101 A language so poverty-stricken as the Chinese.

1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. iv. 151 The idea that the girl was poverty-stricken had appealed to Amory's sense of situation.

1956 Railway Mag. Nov. 739/2 The original promoters of the Port & Pier Railway could hardly have visualised their poverty-stricken child playing such an important role as it was destined to do!

1997 Express 19 Feb. 77/2 Mozambique, a poverty-stricken, post-Colonial paradise waiting to happen.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	poverty-stricken
释义	poverty-strickenadj. Brit. /ˈpɒvətɪˌstrɪk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈpɑvərdiˌstrɪk(ə)n/ Forms: see poverty n. and stricken adj. II.; also 1800s poverty-strick (U.S.). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: poverty n., stricken adj. Etymology: < poverty n. + stricken adj. Compare earlier poverty-struck adj. Suffering from poverty; reduced to great poverty; extremely poor or destitute. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > reduced to poverty broken-fortuned1362 depauperatea1464 peeled?a1513 extenuate1533 withered1561 penured1570 low-ebbed1595 ruined1596 shredded1596 broken1597 beggared1609 impoverisheda1631 necessitated1646 pinched1672 crazy1700 reduced1715 straitened1716 crazed1732 poverty-struck?1750 poverty-stricken?1786 pauperized1807 poverty-smitten1819 distressed1844 out at elbows1885 poverished1900 wiped1977 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > bald barrena1387 baldc1390 meagre1539 barec1540 starved1604 poor1842 poverty-stricken1865 1776 N. B. Halhed tr. Code Gentoo Laws 46 The Fruits of the Earth are produced in less Plenty, and the Reyots also are stricken with Poverty.] ?1786 Proc. Meeting held Theatre in Calcutta 7 Our families must..be reduced to a state still more humiliating, of pinching, but silent penury and want, poverty stricken with shame, and shrinking from the eye of the world. 1803 M. Wilmot Let. 1 Oct. in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) i. 55 Amidst such a multitude of titles a count or countess is often the merest poverty stricken low bread [sic] animal that ever was known. 1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 44 If you profess..the possession of the pure truth, do not appear to be so poverty-stricken as to array your thoughts in the tatters of the cast off Bible. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind v. 101 A language so poverty-stricken as the Chinese. 1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. iv. 151 The idea that the girl was poverty-stricken had appealed to Amory's sense of situation. 1956 Railway Mag. Nov. 739/2 The original promoters of the Port & Pier Railway could hardly have visualised their poverty-stricken child playing such an important role as it was destined to do! 1997 Express 19 Feb. 77/2 Mozambique, a poverty-stricken, post-Colonial paradise waiting to happen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1786
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