impoverished

Verb

• make poor
• take away
• simple past and past participle of impoverish

Adjective Satellite

• poor enough to need help from others
• destroyed financially

Adj

• Reduced to poverty.
• Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.

Examples

• English has an impoverished inflectional system.

Synonyms

broken, deprive, destitute, impoverish, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken, wiped out, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broker than the Ten Commandments, 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, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, insolvent, lower-class, oofless, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as Job, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, possessionless, poverty-ridden, shillingless, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, threadbare, unwealthy, wealthless

Antonyms

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

Related Words

having undergone loss of features, pauper, poverty, underemployed, underprivileged, unemployed

Anagrams of impoverished