impoverished
Lacking all wealth
Impoverished means reduced to poverty or stripped of resources.
An impoverished family lacks money for basic needs.
The word extends beyond finances: impoverished soil has been depleted of nutrients, and an impoverished imagination lacks richness or creativity.
Years of drought left the region impoverished.
Utterly without means
- pennilessCompletely without money
- bankruptUnable to repay debts
- insolventUnable to pay debts
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
penurious · broke · ruined · needy · necessitous · impecunious · strapped · beggared
Dirty, degraded living conditions
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
- privationLack of necessities
- wantTo desire something
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
subsistence · hand-to-mouth · malnutrition · starvation · homelessness · unemployment · destitution · penury
Lacking usual social advantages
- disadvantagedLacking social or economic resources
- disenfranchisedDeprived of voting rights
- marginalizedPushed to society's edges
- underclassLowest socioeconomic group
downtrodden · vulnerable · struggling · neglected · forgotten · excluded · underserved · unhoused
Severely reduced or emptied
- exhaustedUtterly depleted of energy
- strippedHad coverings removed
- degradedReduced in rank or quality
- erodedGradually degraded by elements
overfarmed · deforested · desertified · infertile · unproductive · sterile · fallow · spent
destitute
Utterly without means
indigent · penurious · broke · ruined · needy · necessitous · impecunious · strapped · beggared · moneyless
squalor
Dirty, degraded living conditions
scarcity · subsistence · hand-to-mouth · malnutrition · starvation · homelessness · unemployment · destitution · penury · deprivation
underprivileged
Lacking usual social advantages
- disadvantagedLacking social or economic resources
- disenfranchisedDeprived of voting rights
- marginalizedPushed to society's edges
underclass · downtrodden · vulnerable · struggling · neglected · forgotten · excluded · underserved · unhoused · shantytown
depleted
Severely reduced or emptied
eroded · overfarmed · deforested · desertified · infertile · unproductive · sterile · fallow · spent · drained
sparse
Thinly scattered or distributed
minimal · unadorned · plain · simple · frugal · ascetic · spartan · bleak · stripped-down · unembellished
diminished
Made or became smaller
diluted · stunted · starved · bereft · devoid · lacking · deficient · shallow · empty · barren
- financesmoney, affluence, cash, bankrupt, income
- povertypoor, destitution, penniless, needy, destitute
- wealth statuspoor, rich, wealthy, affluent, middle-class
- Disadvantageddisadvantaged, underprivileged, vulnerable, marginalized, needy
- Global Povertymalnutrition, starvation, food security, clean water, dirty water
- massmass, masses, bulk, body mass, atomic mass