Need another word that means the same as “destitute”? Find 16 synonyms and 30 related words for “destitute” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Destitute” are: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken, barren, devoid, free, innocent, penniless, poor, impecunious, down and out, bereft, deprived, in need
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “destitute” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| barren | Showing no results or achievements; unproductive. Barren lands. |
| bereft | Deprived of or lacking (something. Bereft of hope. |
| deprived | (of a person) lacking a specified benefit that is considered important. A childhood that was unhappy and deprived the family living off charity. |
| devoid | Entirely lacking or free from. The sentence was devoid of meaning. |
| down and out | Shut. |
| free | Using or expending something without restraint; lavish. A free choice. |
| impecunious | Having little or no money. A titled but impecunious family. |
| impoverished | Destroyed financially. Impoverished villages. |
| in need | Currently fashionable. |
| indigent | Poor; needy. A charity for the relief of indigent artists. |
| innocent | (used of things) lacking sense or awareness. Fine innocent weather. |
| necessitous | (of a person) lacking the necessities of life; needy. Dried milk was supplied to necessitous mothers. |
| needy | Demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree. Those from needy backgrounds. |
| penniless | Not having enough money to pay for necessities. A penniless young student. |
| poor | Deserving or inciting pity. Many people are eating a very poor diet. |
| poverty-stricken | Poor enough to need help from others. |
| beggar | Reduce to beggary. This beggars description. |
| begging | A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person. |
| deprived | Marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences. I was so sleep deprived I was bumping into walls. |
| devoid | Completely wanting or lacking. Lisa kept her voice devoid of emotion. |
| disadvantaged | Marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences. Disadvantaged groups such as the unemployed. |
| famish | Deprive of food. Many famished in the countryside during the drought. |
| hardship | Something hard to endure. The many hardships of frontier life. |
| homeless | Physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security James Stern. The plight of young homeless people. |
| hunger | Feel or suffer hunger. They died from cold and hunger. |
| impecunious | Having little or no money. A titled but impecunious family. |
| indigence | A state of extreme poverty or destitution. Their indigence appalled him. |
| indigent | Poor; needy. A charity for the relief of indigent artists. |
| mendicant | A member of a mendicant order. A mendicant friar. |
| neediness | A state of extreme poverty. He recognized her neediness but had no time to respond to it. |
| needy | Needy people collectively. The provision of humanitarian assistance to the needy. |
| nothing | A quantity of no importance. It looked like nothing I had ever seen before. |
| pauper | A poor person who may bring a legal action without payment of costs. He was buried in a pauper s grave. |
| pauperism | A state of extreme poverty or destitution. |
| penniless | (of a person) having no money; very poor. A penniless young student. |
| penury | The state of being very poor; extreme poverty. He couldn t face another year of penury. |
| poor | Used ironically to deprecate something belonging to or offered by oneself. They were too poor to afford a telephone. |
| poverty | The state of being extremely poor. Thousands of families are living in abject poverty. |
| privation | A state in which food and other essentials for well-being are lacking. The privations of life at the front. |
| shortage | The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required. The problems of land shortage in the countryside. |
| starve | Be hungry; go without food. German U boats hoping to starve Britain into submission. |
| sympathy | Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish. The two of them were in close sympathy. |
| truant | Of a pupil being a truant. Truant schoolboys. |
| underprivileged | (of a person) not enjoying the same standard of living or rights as the majority of people in a society. The plight of the underprivileged. |
| unemployed | People who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group. The long term unemployed need assistance. |
| void | Discharge or drain away (water, gases, etc. The earth was without form and void. |
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