impoverished
adjUS /ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/ · UK /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃt/
1
Reduced to poverty.
2
Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
- English has an impoverished inflectional system.
- [I]t was out of print for 28 years, before an edition (now rare) was published in 1960, impoverished by having all citations removed.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 488:
- Synonyms
56 terms
almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, depauperate, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, farthingless, feeling the pinch, flat, goodless, groatless, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, indigent, insolvent, lower-class, moneyless, necessitous, needy, oofless, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, poor as Job, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, shillingless, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, threadbare, unwealthy, wealthless- Antonyms
- affluent, comfortably off, flush, loaded, pecunious, rich, wealthy, well-fixed, well-heeled, well off, well-off, well-to-do
- Derived terms
- impoverishedly, impoverishedness, unimpoverished
- Related terms
- having undergone loss of features, underemployed, underprivileged, unemployed, poverty, pauper
- Hypernyms
- lacking