impoverished

C1
US /ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/ UK /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃt/
adj verb Freq #27029

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.

    English has an impoverished inflectional system.

  2. 2
    adj

    destroyed financially

  3. 3
    adj

    poor enough to need help from others

  4. 4
    adj

    Reduced to poverty.

  5. 5
    verb

    simple past and past participle of impoverish

Thesaurus

Synonyms
2 adj · destroyed financially broken
3 adj · poor enough to need help... needy
More almslessarmbankruptbeggaredbeggarlyboracicbrokedepauperatedestitutedisadvantagedempty-handed
Opposites
affluentflushloadedpecuniousrichwealthywell-fixedwell-heeledwell-offwell-to-do
Word family
Derived forms impoverishedlyimpoverishednessunimpoverished
Related forms pauperpovertyunderemployedunderprivilegedunemployed

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