impoverished, poor, penniless, penurious, in penury, indigent, insolvent, impecunious, moneyless, hard up, poverty-stricken, needy, in need, in want, destitute;

poor as a church mouse, without a sou, in straitened circumstances, on one's beam ends, unable to make ends meet;

British on the breadline, without a penny (to one's name)

informal broke, flat broke, strapped for cash, cleaned out, strapped, on one's uppers, without two pennies/brass farthings to rub together

British informal skint, boracic, stony broke

North American informal stone broke

rare pauperized, beggared