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destitute
adjective
(des-ti-tute)
poor enough to need help from others
Synonyms:
impoverished
,
indigent
,
necessitous
,
needy
, poverty-stricken,
destitute
adjective
(des-ti-tute)
completely wanting or lacking
Synonyms:
barren
,
devoid
,
free
,
innocent
,
Examples:
Young recruits destitute of experience.
Words Related to
destitute
!
impoverished
,
needy
,
poor
,
indigent
,
necessitous
,
poverty-stricken
,
homeless
,
destitution
,
underprivileged
,
squalor
,
helpless
,
disadvantaged
,
landless
,
dispossessed
,
poverty
,
disenfranchised
,
deprived
,
wretched
,
indigence
,
vulnerable
,
powerless
,
miserable
,
distressed
,
misery
,
abandoned
,
ailing
,
beleaguered
,
derelict
,
defenceless
,
ruined
,
unprotected
,
fortunate
,
measly
,
lousy
,
need
,
absolute
,
hard-pressed
,
ill-equipped
,
low-income
,
penniless
,
orphaned
,
shelterless
,
malnourished
,
houseless
,
downtrodden
,
poorest
,
resourceless
,
pennilessness
,
undernourished
,
illiterate
,
impoverish
,
beggarliness
,
moneyless
,
hopeless
,
oppressed
,
uncared
,
uneducated
,
fatherless
,
infirm
,
unemployed
,
displaced
,
pitiable
,
orbate
,
propertyless
,
parentless
,
voiceless
,
elderly
,
hungry
,
wifeless
,
benighted
,
debilitated
,
depauperize
,
squalid
,
outcaste
,
unemployable
,
enslaved
,
famished
,
impecunious
,
exsanguineous
,
husbandless
,
dilapidated
,
desperate
,
workless
,
lorettine
,
ungenitured
,
destitutely
,
dispauperize
,
defenseless
,
friendless
,
desolate
,
collectivised
,
malnourish
,
unfed
,
unhoused
,
jobless
,
bedraggled
,
starvedly
,
street arab
,
unliveable
,
widowed
,
destitute
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