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impoverishedadjective lacking money or material possessionsthe widespread hope that the lottery's record-setting jackpot is won by an impoverished family beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-poor, down-and-out, famished, hard up, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, skint(chiefly British), threadbare deprived, disadvantaged, dispossessed, unaffluent, underprivilegedbankrupt, bankrupted, bust(or busted), insolventpossessionless, ruineddepressed, distressed, hand-to-mouth, hardscrabble, pinched, poorish, reduced, straitenedcash-strapped, low, short, tapped out down on one's luck, out at elbows(or out at the elbows), out of pocket affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, moneyed(also monied), opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do comfortable, prosperous producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetationan impoverished field that over the years had been overgrazed barren, bony(also boney), dead, desolate, hardscrabble, infertile, poor, stark, unfertile, unproductive, waste bleak, inhospitable, lifelessuncultivable, untillablebankrupted, consumed, debilitated, depleted, diminished, drained, dried-up, enfeebled, exhausted, expended, lessened, reduced, spent, used uparid, desert, droughty, dry, rainless, sere(also sear), thirsty, waterlessbaked, dehydrated, parched, sunbaked fertile, fruitful, lush, luxuriant, productive, rich arable, tillablegreen, sylvan, verdant in 1611 |