poverty-stricken
Lacking all resources
Poverty-stricken means extremely poor, suffering from severe lack of money or resources.
The term emphasizes the afflicted quality of poverty—as if struck by misfortune: poverty-stricken neighborhoods, a poverty-stricken family struggling to afford food.
It carries more emotional weight than simply saying poor.
Completely without money
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
- penuriousExcessively frugal or poor
- needyWanting in essentials
- beggarlyMeanly poor, contemptible
impecunious · moneyless · bankrupt · insolvent · down-and-out · necessitous · unmoneyed · resourceless
State of lacking necessities
- squalorDirty, degraded living conditions
- privationLack of necessities
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
adversity · struggle · misery · suffering · desperation · hopelessness · hand-to-mouth · subsistence
Lacking usual social advantages
- underservedInsufficiently provided for
- disadvantagedLacking social or economic resources
- disenfranchisedDeprived of voting rights
- vulnerableOpen to attack
deprived · excluded · oppressed · voiceless · disempowered · struggling · low-income · unhoused
Severe food shortage
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- hungerNeed for nourishment
malnourished · undernourished · famished · meager · insufficient · inadequate · deficient · lacking
penniless
Completely without money
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
- penuriousExcessively frugal or poor
- needyWanting in essentials
beggarly · impecunious · moneyless · bankrupt · insolvent · down-and-out · necessitous · unmoneyed · resourceless · broke
deprivation
State of lacking necessities
indigence · adversity · struggle · misery · suffering · desperation · hopelessness · hand-to-mouth · subsistence · survival
underprivileged
Lacking usual social advantages
- underservedInsufficiently provided for
- disadvantagedLacking social or economic resources
- disenfranchisedDeprived of voting rights
vulnerable · deprived · excluded · oppressed · voiceless · disempowered · struggling · low-income · unhoused · homeless
famine
Severe food shortage
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
hunger · malnourished · undernourished · famished · meager · insufficient · inadequate · deficient · lacking · shortage
- povertypoor, destitution, penniless, needy, indigent
poverty-strickenwealthy
Having abundant financial resources
rich · affluent · prosperous · well-off · well-to-do
strike, poverty, destitute, stricken, impoverished, impoverishment, pauperism, pauperized, impoverishing