Antonyms for beggar
ˈbɛg ərbeg·gar

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1. beggarnoun

   Synonyms:
   ruin

2. beggarverb

   To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.

   Synonyms:
   spanger, mendicant, panhandler, schnorrer, truant, ruin

3. beggarnoun

   To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.

   Synonyms:
   ruin

4. beggarnoun

   Synonyms:
   palliard, pauper, vagabond

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. beggar

   Antonyms:
   exactor, extortioner

   Synonyms:
   mendicant, petitioner, suitor, suppliant, applicant

Matched Categories

1. • Defy
   • Impoverish

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. beggar, mendicantverb

   a pauper who lives by begging

   Synonyms:
   friar, mendicant

2. beggarverb

   be beyond the resources of

   "This beggars description!"

   Synonyms:
   pauperize, pauperise

3. beggar, pauperize, pauperiseverb

   reduce to beggary

   Synonyms:
   pauperize, pauperise

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1. beggarnoun

   Synonyms:
   mendicant, starveling, fakir, vagrant, eleemosynary, prog, tramp, bezonian, mumper, schnorrer (Jewish)

2. beggarverb

   Synonyms:
   impoverish, ruin, exhaust, surpass, go beyond

How to use beggar in a sentence?

1. Marcus Aurelius:

   Then isn’t it better to do what’s up to you - like a free man - than to be passively controlled by what isn’t, like a slave or a beggar?

2. Donald Trump:

   You know, I'm saying to Donald Trump, what is this guy, a beggar ? he gave me his number, and I found the card. I wrote the number down. I don't know if it's the right number. Let's try it.

3. Bhartrihari:

   Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar?s rags; Then he?s a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.*

4. Rudyard Kipling:

   He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

5. Martin Luther King:

   True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.

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