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destitutionnoun the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessionswidespread destitution in Third World countries beggary, destituteness, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, penuriousness, penury, poorness, poverty, want gutter, misery, woe, wretchednessexigencyemergency, rainy dayausterity, deprivation, privationbankruptcy, insolvencybelt-tightening, pinching, straitening affluence, opulence, richness, wealth, wealthiness luxury, prosperity poverty, indigence, penury, want, destitution mean the state of one with insufficient resources.poverty may cover a range from extreme want of necessities to an absence of material comforts.the extreme poverty of the slum dwellers indigence implies seriously straitened circumstances.the indigence of her years as a graduate student penury suggests a cramping or oppressive lack of money.a catastrophic illness that condemned them to years of penury want and destitution imply extreme poverty that threatens life itself through starvation or exposure.lived in a perpetual state of want the widespread destitution in countries beset by famine in the 15th century |