destitution
Complete lack everything
Destitution is extreme poverty—the state of lacking basic necessities like food, shelter, and clothing.
The word implies not just being poor but being utterly without resources: The family was reduced to destitution after the factory closed.
Someone in destitution has nothing left to fall back on.
Extreme poverty, total want
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- impoverishmentState of extreme deprivation
- pauperismCondition of being destitute
- beggaryExtreme, abject poverty
pennilessness · neediness · want · privation · impecuniousness · bankruptcy · insolvency · debt
Deficiency or absence
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
- deficiencyLack of something needed
paucity · want · absence · deprivation · underfunding · undersupply · emptiness · scantiness
Lacking permanent residence
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- famineSevere food shortage
unemployment · displacement · shelterlessness · dispossession · exposure · vagrancy · street life · food insecurity
Suffering from difficult circumstances
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- afflictionCause of ongoing distress
- tribulationState of great distress
privation · ordeal · woe · distress · anguish · despair · hopelessness · wretchedness
Foul, accumulated matter
- slumImpoverished urban district
- ghettoSegregated urban quarter
- disrepairPoor maintained condition
- decayGradual organic breakdown
neglect · unsanitary · vermin · dilapidation · hovels · shanty · tenement · overcrowding
indigence
Extreme poverty, total want
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- impoverishmentState of extreme deprivation
- pauperismCondition of being destitute
beggary · pennilessness · neediness · want · privation · impecuniousness · bankruptcy · insolvency · debt · indebtedness
lack
Deficiency or absence
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
deficiency · paucity · want · absence · deprivation · underfunding · undersupply · emptiness · scantiness · meagerness
homelessness
Lacking permanent residence
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
famine · unemployment · displacement · shelterlessness · dispossession · exposure · vagrancy · street life · food insecurity · unhoused
hardship
Suffering from difficult circumstances
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- afflictionCause of ongoing distress
tribulation · privation · ordeal · woe · distress · anguish · despair · hopelessness · wretchedness · grief
filth
Foul, accumulated matter
decay · neglect · unsanitary · vermin · dilapidation · hovels · shanty · tenement · overcrowding · blight
- financesmoney, affluence, cash, bankrupt, income
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- hard timeshardship, struggle, struggling, unemployment, tough times
- hardshiphardship, adversity, difficulty, trouble, struggle
- money troublesdebt relief, bad debt, bankruptcy filing, paycheck to paycheck, struggling
- homelessnesshomeless, homeless shelters, unhoused, homeless veterans, houseless