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Synonyms for impoverished
ɪmˈpɒv ər ɪʃt, -ˈpɒv rɪʃtim·pov·er·ished
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
impoverished
Synonyms:
deficient, drained, exhausted, inadequate, insufficient, mean, miserly, narrow, niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimped, short, small, sparing, stingy, straitenedAntonyms:
abounding, abundant, adequate, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, complete, copious, enough, exuberant, full, generous, large, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, replete, rich, sufficient, teeming
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, broken, free, poverty-stricken, destitutebroken, wiped out(p), impoverishedadjective
destroyed financially
"the broken fortunes of the family"
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "impoverished":
depleted, poor, depauperate, poverty, destitute, disadvantaged, poverty-stricken, impoverishment
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#42 | free | |
#350 | small | |
#746 | short | |
#1008 | mean | |
#1711 | poor | |
#2535 | broken | |
#3761 | poverty | |
#3889 | narrow | |
#7271 | innocent | |
#10208 | inadequate | |
#10242 | insufficient | |
#14135 | disadvantaged | |
#14778 | exhausted | |
#15777 | scarce | |
#16860 | drained | |
#17142 | deficient | |
#19779 | needy | |
#21173 | depleted | |
#24547 | barren | |
#27252 | devoid | |
#30192 | impoverished | |
#35529 | indigent | |
#37666 | scant | |
#43391 | destitute | |
#44975 | sparing | |
#49769 | stingy | |
#67164 | scanty | |
#84828 | impoverishment | |
#113305 | miserly | |
#188960 | straitened | |
#226840 | niggardly |
How to use impoverished in a sentence?
The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.
Given that multiple factors seem to contribute to falling in the lower 5 percent on school readiness measures - including living in an impoverished household, primary language other than English, lower maternal education, and black maternal race, as well as late preterm( birth) - it is reasonable to believe that the reasons why some late preterm children are at risk are multi-factorial.
It's hard to see how impoverished people, unfamiliar with the workings of this government, of this country, are going to find lawyers, it seems like a pyrrhic offering to say that an individual hearing is of any benefit to them.
This data is stunning from the perspective that we had hoped that things would be trending differently, but we will not ignore our realities, no one can ignore the income insecurity, the financial stress that is being experienced throughout the population. ... This is a state that is the wealthiest in the nation, and, at the same time, it is the most impoverished.
The only thing foreign companies have done is pollute and foment distrust among local populations, we don't see any benefits and remain an impoverished region.
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