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单词 hard up
释义

hard up

adjective

1
: short of money
2
: poorly provided
hard up for friends

Synonyms

  • beggared
  • beggarly
  • broke
  • destitute
  • dirt-poor
  • down-and-out
  • famished
  • impecunious
  • impoverished
  • indigent
  • necessitous
  • needful
  • needy
  • pauperized
  • penniless
  • penurious
  • poor
  • poverty-stricken
  • skint [chiefly British]
  • threadbare
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Example Sentences

despite being undeniably hard up, they had too much pride to accept charity
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Word History

First Known Use

1821, in the meaning defined at sense 1

hard up

adjective

as in poor
lacking money or material possessions despite being undeniably hard up, they had too much pride to accept charity

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • poor
  • impoverished
  • broke
  • needful
  • needy
  • bankrupt
  • impecunious
  • deprived
  • beggared
  • necessitous
  • out of pocket
  • out at elbows
  • bankrupted
  • famished
  • depressed
  • destitute
  • indigent
  • out at the elbows
  • pauperized
  • beggarly
  • down on one's luck
  • penniless
  • threadbare
  • penurious
  • unaffluent
  • dirt-poor
  • disadvantaged
  • underprivileged
  • skint
  • ruined
  • down-and-out
  • poverty-stricken
  • reduced
  • distressed
  • possessionless
  • bust
  • short
  • dispossessed
  • tapped out
  • busted
  • low
  • insolvent
  • pinched
  • poorish
  • hardscrabble
  • straitened
  • cash-strapped
  • hand-to-mouth

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • wealthy
  • rich
  • affluent
  • opulent
  • fat
  • comfortable
  • moneyed
  • flush
  • monied
  • prosperous
  • well-to-do
  • well-off
  • silk-stocking
  • well-heeled
  • deep-pocketed
  • fat-cat
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