impoverished

impoverished

adj

Definition of IMPOVERISHED

of a fauna or flora

: represented by few species or individuals

Examples of IMPOVERISHED

1. <the widespread hope that the lottery's record-setting jackpot is won by an impoverished family>
2. <an impoverished field that over the years had been overgrazed>

First Known Use of IMPOVERISHED

1862

Related to IMPOVERISHED

Synonyms: beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-poor, down-and-out, famished, hard up, impecunious, poor, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poverty-stricken, skint [chiefly British], threadbare

Antonyms: affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do

Related Words: deprived, disadvantaged, dispossessed, unaffluent, underprivileged; bankrupt, bankrupted, bust (or busted), insolvent; possessionless, ruined; depressed, distressed, hand-to-mouth, hardscrabble, pinched, poorish, reduced, straitened; cash-strapped, low, short, tapped out

Near Antonyms: comfortable, prosperous

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Other Biology Terms

autochthonous, fecund, homunculus, phylogeny, substrate