Antonyms for impoverished
ɪmˈpɒv ər ɪʃt, -ˈpɒv rɪʃtim·pov·er·ished

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1. impoverished

   Antonyms:
   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

   Synonyms:
   deficient, drained, exhausted, inadequate, insufficient, mean, miserly, narrow, niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimped, short, small, sparing, stingy, straitened

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1. destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-strickenadjective

   poor enough to need help from others

   Antonyms:
   rich, preserved

   Synonyms:
   needy, innocent, indigent, barren, wiped out(p), devoid, necessitous, broken, free, poverty-stricken, destitute

2. broken, wiped out(p), impoverishedadjective

   destroyed financially

   "the broken fortunes of the family"

   Antonyms:
   preserved, rich

How to use impoverished in a sentence?

1. Johnny Thornton:

   John McCown created a political strategy, and African Americans voted themselves into power, it has come to a point where( Hancock County) is one of the most impoverished in America. There is a wives' tale -- I don't know if it's true or not -- that some political leaders in Georgia have always said that if we can't vote the people of Hancock County out, we'll starve them out -- and there's been a disproportionate lack of growth to this particular community.

2. Veronica Hinton:

   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.

3. Roz Kidman Cox:

   This image is in one sense traditional -- a portrait. But what a striking one, and what magical animals, it is a symbolic reminder of the beauty of nature and how impoverished we are becoming as nature is diminished. It is an artwork worthy of hanging in any gallery in the world.

4. Ed Lindeman:

   If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

5. Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

   This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.

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