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Adjective
Lacking in material possessions or financial wealth
poverty-stricken
destitute
poor
impoverished
needy
penniless
penurious
impecunious
broke
indigent
skint
necessitous
beggared
pauperized
beggarly
needful
strapped
bankrupt
moneyless
threadbare
famished
distressed
short
wanting
suffering
impencunious
unmoneyed
hard up
in want
dirt-poor
flat broke
in need
down-and-out
in straitened circumstances
stony broke
on the breadline
strapped for cash
stone broke
without a sou
cleaned out
down and out
dirt poor
as poor as a church mouse
in penury
without two pennies to rub together
in Queer Street
out at elbows
unable to make ends meet
on one's uppers
out of pocket
down at heel
without a penny
without two farthings to rub together
down on luck
stony-broke
bad off
financially poor
miserably poor
very poor
in great need
on one's beam-ends
in dire circumstances
insolvent
badly off
underprivileged
in reduced circumstances
disadvantaged
deprived
ruined
without two brass farthings to rub together
bust
boracic
without a red cent
without a brass farthing
unprosperous
boracic lint
without a bean
depressed
flat
busted
lacking
low-income
pinched
in the red
unable to keep the wolf from the door
on skid row
dead broke
straitened
homeless
reduced
up against it
cashless
in the gutter
truly needy
hard-pressed
in debt
on the rocks
without two pennies farthings to rub together
short of money
tapped out
without a penny to one's name
rundown
neglected
derelict
shabby
seedy
broken
indebted
fortuneless
have-not
struggling
finished
unfortunate
unlucky
stony
in need of
over a barrel
without a dime
low-paid
on one's beam ends
in distress
empty-handed
without a shot in one's locker
wiped out
cash-strapped
behind eight ball
poor as a church mouse
on last leg
down to last penny
in Chapter 11
on the bread line
down to last cent
bankrupted
out of cash
on a tight budget
on the dole
signing on
down-at-heel
pathetic
scanty
low
meagerUS
meagreUK
overdrawn
abject
without money
unaffluent
unfavored
unprivileged
vagrant
vagabond
denuded
bereft
on the skids
in the poorhouse
on the streets
underserved
forlorn
dispossessed
financially distressed
in financial difficulties
financially embarrassed
not having two pennies to rub together
not having two farthings to rub together
without means of support
in a bad way
short of cash
craptastic
crippled
gone under
fleeced
out of business
rekt
hurting
handicapped
in dire straits
economically disadvantaged
ill-fated
hapless
ill-starred
discriminated against
in distressed circumstances
slummy
ghost
shanty
ghetto
poverty-ridden
run down
run-down
skid row
economically deprived
financially disadvantaged
out of money
stone-broke
“Buffalo and Cormorant aircraft from 442 Squadron were dispatched to home in on a 121.5 MHz ELT signal, but due to extremely poor weather in the mountain valleys, the CF SAR Tech team was unable to parachute in to the scene.”
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