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Synonyms for destitute
ˈdɛs tɪˌtut, -ˌtyutdes·ti·tute
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Princeton's WordNet
destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-strickenadjective
poor enough to need help from others
Synonyms:
needy, innocent, indigent, barren, wiped out(p), devoid, necessitous, impoverished, broken, free, poverty-strickenbarren, destitute, devoid, free, innocentadjective
completely wanting or lacking
"writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
Synonyms:
guiltless, gratis(p), ingenuous, innocuous, indigent, needy, impeccant, complimentary, loose, costless, liberal, free, stark, unacquainted(p), desolate, barren, gratuitous, clean-handed, impoverished, detached, spare, innocent(p), innocent, poverty-stricken, sinless, devoid, bleak, bare, necessitous
Dictionary of English Synonymes
destituteadjective
Synonyms:
indigent, needy, poor, penniless, necessitous, distressed, reduced, pinched, short of money, out of money, out of cash, out of pocket, in need, in want, moneyless
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "destitute":
indigent, indigence, destitution, needy, dispossessed, poor, impoverished, helpless, disadvantaged
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#42 | free | |
#1711 | poor | |
#2535 | broken | |
#4110 | liberal | |
#5227 | loose | |
#6173 | spare | |
#6959 | bare | |
#7271 | innocent | |
#9440 | complimentary | |
#12087 | detached | |
#12618 | stark | |
#14135 | disadvantaged | |
#19578 | helpless | |
#19779 | needy | |
#24547 | barren | |
#25029 | bleak | |
#27252 | devoid | |
#30192 | impoverished | |
#35529 | indigent | |
#36359 | desolate | |
#39008 | gratuitous | |
#43391 | destitute | |
#48630 | innocuous | |
#67857 | dispossessed | |
#90306 | sinless | |
#95248 | destitution | |
#121187 | guiltless | |
#140917 | ingenuous | |
#151832 | costless | |
#210874 | indigence |
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We deal with individual people in the smallest and most obscure and suffering villages in the desert and in the jungles of Africa, and we've had programs in 80 different countries on the Earth for the poorest and most destitute people in the world, and that has been, I'd say, far more gratifying personally because we actually interact with families and with people.
Lack of access to even basic livelihood opportunities and diminished access to food and other assistance will make these families even more vulnerable and destitute and children will certainly become even more at risk, ...we shouldn't leave millions of children not only without hope, but without basic means to survive.
My story, is how a kid that's born into really destitute poverty on a little dirt road in Florida winds up in one of the largest bands in history.
We love it just as much as you do, after the family was railroaded out of town, they lived in Los Angeles destitute and so therefore, these people who did this to my family need to rectify it by any means, including apologize.
'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'
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