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bankrupt

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of bankrupt

utterly lacking in something needed, wanted, or expected

  • the company's product development team was bankrupt of ideas
Synonyms of bankrupt

bare, barren, bereft, destitute, devoid, void
Words Related to bankrupt

blank, empty, innocent, stark, vacant, wanting

deficient, fragmental, fragmentary, incomplete, insufficient, partial, short

absent, missing
Near Antonyms of bankrupt

furnished, provided, supplied

brimming, bulging, bursting, chock-full (or chockful), crammed, crowded, fat, jammed, jam-packed, loaded, packed, saturated, stuffed

abounding, swarming, teeming, thick, thronging
Antonyms of bankrupt

filled, flush, fraught, full, replete, rife

bankrupt

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of bankrupt

to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts

  • several bad investments bankrupted him
Synonyms of bankrupt

break, bust, ruin
Words Related to bankrupt

beggar, impoverish, pauperize

reduce, straiten

clean (out), wipe out
Near Antonyms of bankrupt

enrich, richen

Synonym Discussion of bankrupt

deplete, drain, exhaust, impoverish, bankrupt mean to deprive of something essential to existence or potency. deplete implies a reduction in number or quantity so as to endanger the ability to function.
    • depleting our natural resources
drain implies a gradual withdrawal and ultimate deprivation of what is necessary to an existence.
    • personal tragedy had drained him of all spirit
exhaust stresses a complete emptying.
    • her lecture exhausted the subject
impoverish suggests a deprivation of something essential to richness or productiveness.
    • impoverished soil
bankrupt suggests impoverishment to the point of imminent collapse.
    • war had bankrupted the nation of resources

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