Synonyms of dirt-poor

dirt-poor

adjective

as in impoverished

lacking money or material possessions

growing up dirt-poor in the rural South

Synonyms & Similar Words

• impoverished
• poor
• broke
• impecunious
• beggared
• penniless
• pauperized
• bankrupt
• indigent
• needy
• destitute
• poverty-stricken
• penurious
• deprived
• bankrupted
• famished
• necessitous
• beggarly
• depressed
• hard up
• threadbare
• down-and-out
• needful
• skint
• disadvantaged
• underprivileged
• hardscrabble
• dispossessed
• distressed
• ruined
• out at elbows
• out of pocket
• down on one's luck
• out at the elbows
• poorish
• busted
• unaffluent
• reduced
• insolvent
• bust
• short
• pinched
• straitened
• low
• cash-strapped
• possessionless
• hand-to-mouth
• tapped out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wealthy
• affluent
• rich
• moneyed
• opulent
• monied
• fat
• well-to-do
• well-off
• flush
• prosperous
• well-heeled
• comfortable
• fat-cat
• deep-pocketed
• silk-stocking

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• wealthy
• affluent
• rich
• moneyed
• opulent
• monied
• fat
• well-to-do
• well-off
• flush
• prosperous
• well-heeled
• comfortable
• fat-cat
• deep-pocketed
• silk-stocking

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