Related Words for destitute

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poor
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
indigent
/xx
Verb, Adjective, Noun
impoverished
x/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
needy
/x
Verb, Adjective
penniless
/xx
Adjective
destitution
/xxx
Noun
friendless
/x
Adjective
bereft
x/
Noun
homeless
/x
Noun
pitiable
/xxx
Adjective
starve
/
Verb
helpless
/x
Adjective
undernourished
xx/x
Adjective
landless
/x
Noun
orphans
/x
Noun
forlorn
x/
Adjective
perishing
/xx
Noun
infirm
x/
Noun
paupers
/x
Noun
sickly
/x
Adjective
dispossessed
xx/
Verb
disadvantaged
xx/x
Adjective
wretched
/x
Adjective
hopeless
/x
Adjective
beggar
/x
Noun
deprived
x/
Verb
frail
/
Adjective
malnourished
x/x
Adjective
unfortunates
x/xx
Noun
desolate
/xx
Adjective
defenseless
x/x
Adjective
downtrodden
x/x
Noun
underprivileged
/x/x
Noun
fatherless
/xx
Noun
desperate
/x
Adjective
ragged
/x
Adjective
afflicted
x/x
Verb
sick
/
Adjective
illiterate
x/xx
Adjective
bedraggled
x/x
Adjective
squalid
/x
Adjective
poorhouse
/x
Noun
forsaken
x/x
Verb
barren
/x
Adjective
deserted
x/x
Verb
bankrupt
/x
Adjective
pitied
/x
Verb
decrepit
x/x
Adjective
undeserving
xx/x
Adjective
incapable
x/xx
Adjective
wretches
/x
Noun
oppressed
x/
Adjective
dissolute
xx/
Adjective
despondent
x/x
Adjective
despoiled
x/
Verb
uneducated
x/xxx
Adjective
disinherited
xx/xx
Name
motherless
/xx
Noun
improvident
x/xx
Adjective
diseased
x/
Adjective
crippled
/x
Verb
hovels
/x
Noun
widow
/x
Noun
alms
/
Noun
unemployed
xx/
Adjective
worthless
/x
Adjective
withered
/x
Adjective
lonely
/x
Adjective
mistreated
x/x
Verb
devoid
x/
Noun
void
/
Noun
empty
/x
Adjective
hard up
//
Phrase, Adjective, Verb
lacking
/x
Verb
naked
/x
Adjective
wanting
/x
Verb
derelict
/xx
Noun
hapless
/x
Adjective
thin
/
Adjective
short
/
Adjective
deficient
x/x
Adjective
truncated
/xx
Adjective
broke
/
Verb
depleted
x/x
Adjective
vacuous
/xx
Adjective
hungry
/x
Adjective
woeful
/x
Adjective
meager
/x
Adjective
vagrants
/x
Noun
freedmen
/x
Noun
cannibals
/xx
Noun
irish
/x
Name
wanderers
/xx
Noun
refugee
/xx
Noun
pastoralists
/xxx
Noun
seamen
/x
Noun
fugitives
/xx
Noun
emigrants
/xx
Noun
mexicans
/xx
Name
alone
x/
Adverb
nomads
/x
Noun
peasants
/x
Noun
aliens
/xx
Noun
seekers
/x
Noun
newcomers
/xx
Noun
weavers
/x
Noun
miners
/x
Noun
defendants
x/x
Noun
families
/xx
Noun
millions
/x
Noun
abandoned
x/x
Adjective
absolute
/xx
Adjective, Noun
achromatic
/x/x
Adjective
affluent
/xx
Adjective, Noun
ailing
/x
Adjective, Noun
arid
/x
Adjective
behind
x/
Adverb, Adjective, Noun
beleaguered
x/x
Adjective
believe
x/
Verb
blind
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
comprise
x/
Verb
con
/
Noun, Verb
disenfranchised
xx/x
Adjective
distressed
x/
Adjective
enlightenment
x/xx
Noun
enslaved
x/
Noun
entire
x/x
Adjective, Noun
fortunate
/xx
Adjective
free
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
get
/
Verb, Noun
lousy
/x
Adjective
measly
/x
Adjective
miserable
/xxx
Adjective, Noun
misery
/xx
Noun
natural
/xx
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
need
/
Verb, Noun
poverty
/xx
Noun
powerless
/xx
Adjective
put
/
Verb, Noun
ruined
/x
Adjective
serve
/
Verb, Noun
simple
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
squalor
/x
Noun
stricken
/x
Adjective
suffice
x/
Verb
tell
/
Verb, Noun
unprotected
xx/x
Adjective
vulnerable
/xxx
Adjective
wealthier
/xx
Adjective
without
x/
Adverb
shirtless
/x
Adjective
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
bulletproof
/xx
Adjective, Verb
no
/
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
anymore
xx/
Adverb
die
/
Verb, Noun
sorta
/x
Adverb
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb