Related Words for impoverished

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WordSyllablesCategories
indigent
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Adjective, Noun
poor
/
Noun, Adjective, Noun, Verb
needy
/x
Verb, Adjective
destitute
/xx
Adjective, Adjective, Verb, Noun
broken
/x
Noun, Adjective, Noun
destroyed
x/
Noun, Adjective
wiped out
//
Phrase, Adjective
disadvantaged
xx/x
Adjective
underprivileged
/x/x
Noun
downtrodden
x/x
Noun
affluent
/xx
Adjective
disenfranchised
xx/x
Adjective
undernourished
xx/x
Adjective
oppressed
x/
Adjective
penniless
/xx
Adjective
underdeveloped
xxx/x
Adjective
marginalized
/xxx
Verb
malnourished
x/x
Adjective
wealthy
/x
Adjective
benighted
x/x
Adjective
uneducated
x/xxx
Adjective
dispossessed
xx/
Verb
illiterate
x/xx
Adjective
underserved
xx/
Adjective
embittered
x/x
Adjective
starved
/
Adjective
troubled
/x
Adjective
wretched
/x
Adjective
disaffected
xx/x
Adjective
disempowered
xx/x
Adjective
crippled
/x
Verb
disinherited
xx/xx
Name
unsophisticated
xx/xxx
Adjective
homeless
/x
Noun
alienated
/xxxx
Verb
squalid
/x
Adjective
deprived
x/
Verb
rural
/x
Adjective
isolated
/xxx
Adjective
populous
/xx
Adjective
unemployed
xx/
Adjective
desolate
/xx
Adjective
enfeebled
x/x
Adjective
dispirited
x/xx
Adjective
traumatized
/xx
Adjective
afflicted
x/x
Verb
underclass
/xx
Noun
brutalized
/xx
Verb
devastated
/xxx
Verb
dilapidated
x/xxx
Adjective
slums
/
Noun
helpless
/x
Adjective
debilitated
x/xxx
Adjective
submerged
x/
Adjective
woeful
/x
Adjective
bereft
x/
Noun
sick
/
Adjective
badly off
/x/
Phrase, Adjective
hungry
/x
Adjective
thin
/
Adjective
bankrupt
/x
Adjective
pinched
/
Adjective
hard up
//
Phrase, Adjective, Verb
bad off
//
Phrase, Adjective
miserable
/xxx
Adjective
ridden
/x
Adjective
disheartened
x/x
Verb
weakened
/x
Verb
blighted
/x
Adjective
neglected
x/x
Verb
forsaken
x/x
Verb
cramped
/
Adjective
sorry
/x
Adjective
dejected
x/x
Adjective
emaciated
x/xxx
Adjective
humiliated
x/xxx
Verb
scrawny
/x
Adjective
poorly
/x
Adverb
depressed
x/
Adjective
meager
/x
Adjective
degraded
x/x
Adjective
shabby
/x
Adjective
impaired
x/
Verb
decayed
x/
Adjective
downcast
/x
Adjective
depleted
x/x
Adjective
debased
x/
Verb
underfoot
xx/
Adverb
meagre
/x
Adjective
short
/
Adjective
naked
/x
Adjective
down in the dumps
/xx/
Phrase, Adjective
powerless
/xx
Adjective
dismal
/x
Adjective
despondent
x/x
Adjective
stricken
/x
Adjective
forlorn
x/
Adjective
close to the bone
//x/
Phrase, Adjective
failed
/
Verb
beaten
/x
Verb
enriched
x/
Verb
hidalgo
x/x
Name
northeast
x/
Noun
peasantry
/xx
Noun
sharecroppers
/xx
Noun
nobleman
/xx
Noun
exchequer
/xx
Noun
populated
/xxx
Verb
samurai
/xx
Noun
aristocrat
x/xx
Noun
backward
/x
Adverb
smallholders
/xx
Noun
backwater
/xx
Noun
gentry
/x
Noun
gentility
x/xx
Noun
proletarians
xx/xx
Noun
irish
/x
Name
peasants
/x
Noun
orphan
/x
Noun
boyhood
/x
Noun
childhoods
/x
Noun
exploited
/xx
Verb
neighborhood
/xx
Noun
widow
/x
Noun
defeated
x/x
Verb
fauna
/x
Noun
exhausted
x/x
Verb
economically
xx/xx
Adverb
squatters
/x
Noun
proletariat
xx/xx
Noun
squire
/
Noun
nobility
x/xx
Noun
nobles
/x
Noun
ghettos
/x
Noun
countryside
/xx
Noun
crowded
/x
Verb
peer
/
Noun
newcomers
/xx
Noun
landowner
/xx
Noun
mexicans
/xx
Name
biota
x/x
Noun
multitudes
/xx
Noun
dwellers
/x
Noun
restricted
x/x
Verb
south
/
Noun
advantaged
x/x
Adjective
attenuated
x/xxx
Adjective
desperate
/x
Adjective, Noun
difficult
/xx
Adjective, Verb
distressed
x/
Adjective
enslaved
x/
Adjective
gun
/
Noun, Verb
poverty
/xx
Noun
prosperous
/xx
Adjective
scarce
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
speaking
/x
Adjective, Noun
urbanized
/xx
Noun
shirtless
/x
Adjective
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
bulletproof
/xx
Adjective, Verb
no
/
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
anymore
xx/
Adverb
die
/
Verb, Noun
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
sorta
/x
Adverb