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单词 destitute
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destitute

Saints players gave time and money to help the poor and destitute.A woman answered the knock at her door and found a destitute man.The poet's family had become destitute in the previous bitter winter and her elderly mother had died of starvation.Our family is now destitute.Raised on a trailer park in Michigan, he spent much of his early career destitute and homeless.It's been three weeks since the beginning of the catastrophe and more than 20m people are destitute.At the same time, industrial capitalism also resulted in the massive movement of farmers into cities, which soon became swollen with destitute people in search of work.

In other languages
destitute

British English: destitute ADJECTIVE
Someone who is destitute has no money or possessions.
...destitute children who live on the streets.
  • American English: destitute
  • Brazilian Portuguese: indigente
  • Chinese: 赤贫的
  • European Spanish: indigente
  • French: indigent
  • German: mittellos
  • Italian: indigente
  • Japanese: 困窮した
  • Korean: 극빈한
  • European Portuguese: indigente
  • Latin American Spanish: indigente

(adjective) 
Definition
lacking the means to live
destitute families who live in poverty
Synonyms
penniless
a penniless refugee
poor
He was one of thirteen children from a poor family.
impoverished
The goal is to lure businesses into impoverished areas.
distressed
investment in the nation's distressed areas
needy
a project aimed at raising funds for needy children around the world
on the rocks
insolvent
poverty-stricken
delivering medical aid to poverty-stricken areas
down and out
indigent (formal)
Medical professionals should be permitted to provide free healthcare to indigent people.
impecunious
I first met him when he was an impecunious, would-be racing driver.
dirt-poor (informal)
on the breadline (informal)
flat broke (informal)
short
penurious
on your uppers
necessitous (literary)
Necessitous people are not free people.
in queer street (informal)
moneyless
without two pennies to rub together (informal)

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of distressed
Definition
in financial difficulties
investment in the nation's distressed areas
Synonyms
poverty-stricken,
poor,
impoverished,
needy,
destitute,
indigent (formal),
down at heel,
straitened,
penurious
in the sense of impecunious
Definition
without money
I first met him when he was an impecunious, would-be racing driver.
Synonyms
poor,
broke (informal),
penniless,
short,
strapped (slang),
stony (British, slang),
cleaned out (slang),
insolvent,
destitute,
poverty-stricken,
down and out,
skint (British, slang),
indigent,
dirt-poor (informal),
flat broke (informal),
in queer street,
without two pennies to rub together (informal)
in the sense of impoverished
The goal is to lure businesses into impoverished areas.
Synonyms
poor,
needy,
destitute,
ruined,
distressed,
bankrupt,
poverty-stricken,
indigent (formal),
impecunious,
straitened,
penurious,
necessitous (literary),
in reduced or straitened circumstances,
on your uppers

Synonyms of 'destitute'

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