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What is the adjective for beggar?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs beg and beggar which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

beggarly
  1. In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
  2. Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
  3. (by extension) inadequate or meagre.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. destitute, penniless, poor, impoverished, needy, impecunious, indigent, broke, penurious, skint, beggared, necessitous, pauperized, needful, threadbare, famished, distressed, pathetic, abject, poverty-stricken, dirt-poor, hard up, down-and-out, strapped, flat broke, moneyless, bankrupt, stone broke, insolvent, stony broke, strapped for cash, without two pennies to rub together, in want, in need, in straitened circumstances, on the breadline, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, down and out, in reduced circumstances, cleaned out, without two farthings to rub together, ruined, badly off, dirt poor, out at elbows, out of pocket, down on luck, unable to make ends meet, underprivileged … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Ay, but Sir John, I think they are exceedingly poor and bare, too beggarly.”
      “Now, we would ask Secretary Thompson if a combination of labor living under such beggarly conditions, that desire decent living, decent wearing apparel, and above all reasonable opportunities for education, is a crime.”
      “If you wish for men who shall be of the lowest of the people, offer a beggarly stipend, and you will infallibly obtain them.”
beggarlike
  1. Resembling a beggar or some aspect of one: poor, wheedling, insolent, etc.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. beggarly, grovelling, groveling, needy
  3. Examples:
      4. “The beggarlike man approached me on the street, pleading for money in a wheedling and insolent manner.”
beggarsome
  1. Characteristic or typical of a beggar
beggable
  1. Capable of being begged.
beggary
  1. (obsolete) beggarly
beggarlier
  1. comparative form of beggarly: more beggarly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. poorer, needier, skinter, abjecter, more impoverished, more indigent, more broke, more penurious, more necessitous, more needful, more threadbare, more famished, more distressed, more pathetic, more poverty-stricken, more hard up, more moneyless, more bankrupt, more insolvent, more stony broke, worse off, more ruined, more underprivileged, more deprived, more disadvantaged, more boracic, shorter, more unprosperous, flatter, more tapped out, more hard-pressed, more fortuneless, more empty-handed, more broken, stonier, more reduced, more busted, more straitened, more cashless, more lacking, more wanting, more vagrant, more indebted, more derelict, more finished, scantier, lower, meagerer, meagrer, more craptastic … more
beggarliest
  1. superlative form of beggarly: most beggarly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. poorest, neediest, skintest, abjectest, most impoverished, most indigent, most broke, most penurious, most necessitous, most needful, most threadbare, most famished, most distressed, most pathetic, most poverty-stricken, most hard up, most moneyless, most bankrupt, most insolvent, most stony broke, worst off, most ruined, most underprivileged, most deprived, most disadvantaged, most boracic, shortest, most unprosperous, flattest, most tapped out, most hard-pressed, most fortuneless, most empty-handed, most broken, stoniest, most reduced, most busted, most straitened, most cashless, most lacking, most wanting, most vagrant, most indebted, most derelict, most finished, meagerest, lowest, scantiest, meagrest, most craptastic … more
begged
  1. simple past tense and past participle of beg
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cried, pleaded, pled, appealed, called, implored, asked, beseeched, besought, clamoured, clamored, entreated, prayed, pressed, solicited, petitioned, requested, importuned, supplicated, bid, urged, impetrated, called on, conjured, besieged, enjoined, obsecrated, demanded, craved, prest, exhorted, pleaded to, adjured, pleaded with, sued, appealed to, sought, required, encouraged, put in for, requisitioned, obtested, prayed to, called for, invoked, called upon, bade, ordered, proposed, insisted … more
begging
  1. present participle of beg
  2. Synonyms:
      3. imploring, entreating, petitioning, soliciting, beseeching, asking, requesting, importuning, supplicating, pleading, praying, urging, impetrating, conjuring, exhorting, besieging, suing, enjoining, obsecrating, craving, adjuring, pressing, requisitioning, obtesting, desiring, nagging, appealing to, calling on, pleading with, pleading to, applying to, praying to, calling to, going on bended knee, appealing, bidding, demanding, invoking, calling upon, seeking, encouraging, calling, ordering, requiring, proposing, asking earnestly, pushing, insisting, lobbying, applying … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Adriana took the gelid hands of her sister and knelt before her with a begging stare.”
beggared
  1. simple past tense and past participle of beggar
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bankrupted, impoverished, broke, brake, broken, pauperized, ruined, crippled, wiped out, reduced to destitution, reduced to penury, made bankrupt, made poor, made destitute, reduced to poverty, brought someone to their knees, cleaned out, made insolvent, brought to ruin, made penniless, drained, busted, caused to go bankrupt, bled dry, liquidated, depleted, disfigured, exhausted, fleeced, pillaged, crippled financially, made somebody skint, brought down, made somebody broke, cleared out, reduced to beggary, folded, put into liquidation, wrecked, reduced, crushed, decimated, diminished, ruinated, become insolvent, sold out, folded up, reduced to nothing, went bankrupt, became insolvent … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Still less do the opulent and enlightened commons of France resemble its servile and beggared populace in the sixteenth century.”
beggaring
  1. present participle of beggar
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bankrupting, impoverishing, breaking, pauperizing, ruining, crippling, wiping out, reducing to destitution, reducing to penury, making bankrupt, making poor, making destitute, reducing to poverty, bringing someone to their knees, cleaning out, making insolvent, bringing to ruin, making penniless, draining, busting, causing to go bankrupt, bleeding dry, liquidating, clearing out, exhausting, pillaging, depleting, disfiguring, fleecing, crippling financially, reducing to beggary, bringing down, making somebody broke, making somebody skint, folding, wrecking, crushing, diminishing, decimating, ruinating, reducing, putting into liquidation, reducing to nothing, becoming insolvent, going bankrupt, selling out, folding up, going into Chapter 11, defying, challenging … more
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