beggar
Destitute street supplicant
A beggar is a person who asks strangers for money or food, typically on the street.
The word carries connotations of extreme poverty and dependence on others' charity.
To beggar someone is to reduce them to poverty: The medical bills beggared the family.
Something that beggars belief or beggars description exceeds what can be believed or described—it overwhelms the capacity to respond.
Utterly without means
- pauperPerson in extreme poverty
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
poor · needy · want · hardship · deprivation · underprivileged · hand-to-mouth · subsistence
Geographic arm of territory
- pleadAsk urgently or formally
- entreatPlead urgently with someone
- beseechPlead urgently with someone
- imploreUrge with desperation
petition · appeal · cadge · importune · accost · request · ask · busk
Homeless itinerant person
- vagabondHomeless, aimless wanderer
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
- wandererRootless, roving person
unhoused · unsheltered · itinerant · nomadic · displaced · outcast · squatter · wayfarer
Gifts to the destitute
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- generosityReadiness to give freely
- benefactorOne who gives aid
- philanthropyGenerous giving for others
giving · handout · aid · relief · assistance · welfare · support · compassion
Remaining alive against odds
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- plightDifficult, dangerous situation
hardship · distress · helplessness · hopelessness · despair · anguish · wretchedness · dire
Lowest socioeconomic group
- untouchableExempt from criticism or harm
- outcastShunned, rejected person
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
- commonerNon-noble person
plebeian · downtrodden · lowly · serf · pariah · marginalized · stigmatized · shunned
destitute
Utterly without means
- pauperPerson in extreme poverty
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
- penuryExtreme lack of money
impoverished · poor · needy · want · hardship · deprivation · underprivileged · hand-to-mouth · subsistence · squalor
panhandle
Geographic arm of territory
implore · petition · appeal · cadge · importune · accost · request · ask · busk · cup
vagrant
Homeless itinerant person
- vagabondHomeless, aimless wanderer
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
wanderer · unhoused · unsheltered · itinerant · nomadic · displaced · outcast · squatter · wayfarer · roofless
alms
Gifts to the destitute
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- generosityReadiness to give freely
- benefactorOne who gives aid
philanthropy · giving · handout · aid · relief · assistance · welfare · support · compassion · mercy
survival
Remaining alive against odds
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
plight · hardship · distress · helplessness · hopelessness · despair · anguish · wretchedness · dire · crisis
underclass
Lowest socioeconomic group
- untouchableExempt from criticism or harm
- outcastShunned, rejected person
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
commoner · plebeian · downtrodden · lowly · serf · pariah · marginalized · stigmatized · shunned · invisible
- social ranksking, queen, emperor, empress, noble
- class labelsaristocrat, bourgeois, commoner, elite, gentry
- NPCsNPC, merchant, guard, villager, shopkeeper
- requestersrequester, asker, askers, seeker, seekers
- Victorian povertyworkhouse, poorhouse, tenement, slum, hovel
- street peoplestreet vendor, street performer, street musician, busker, street artist
beggarmillionaire
Person possessing great wealth
billionaire · tycoon · magnate · plutocrat · rich man
beggargiver
One who bestows
donor · benefactor · philanthropist · bestower · grantor
- begged offSought release from obligation
- begged to differPolitely voiced disagreement
- begged the questionAssumed what needed proving
- begging to differPolite dissent phrase
- begging the questionAssuming what needs proof
- go beggingRemain unwanted or unused
begging, begged, beggars, beggarly, beggary, beggared, beggaring, beggarwoman, beggarman