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What is the opposite of well-off?

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Adjective
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Opposite of rich, affluent, or financially prosperous
poor
destitute
impoverished
indigent
needy
penniless
poverty-stricken
broke
impecunious
penurious
short
dirt-poor
failing
unfortunate
unsuccessful
badly off
flat broke
hard up
down and out
down at heel
on the breadline
on the rocks
without two pennies to rub together
skint
necessitous
beggared
pauperized
beggarly
needful
strapped
moneyless
bankrupt
insolvent
threadbare
famished
underprivileged
ruined
disadvantaged
deprived
boracic
distressed
bust
homeless
wanting
indebted
unprosperous
flat
overdrawn
suffering
stony
cashless
in want
in straitened circumstances
in need
stony broke
without a sou
strapped for cash
cleaned out
in penury
in reduced circumstances
stone broke
in Queer Street
unable to make ends meet
as poor as a church mouse
boracic lint
in the red
without a penny
without a bean
on one's uppers
without a brass farthing
without a red cent
hard-pressed
without two farthings to rub together
financially distressed
financially embarrassed
extremely poor
in financial difficulties
stony-broke
short of cash
without a shot in one's locker
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Adjective
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Opposite of having wealth, especially newly acquired wealth
nouveau pauvre
Adjective
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Opposite of favored by luck and good fortune
luckless
unlucky
unfortunate
hexed
hopeless
poor
sick
troubled
unfelicitous
alone
broken
cursed
curst
desperate
disadvantaged
failed
helpless
homeless
impoverished
inauspicious
pained
penniless
unblessed
unfulfilled
unhealthy
unpromising
unsuccessful
unwell
abandoned
abused
afflicted
ailing
baleful
bankrupt
calamitous
deficient
dirty
disastrous
diseased
doomed
doomful
faded
failing
fatiguing
forsaken
gone to pieces
haggard
hapless
hard luck
hoary
ill
ill-fated
ill-starred
infelicitous
in great need
in need
inopportune
jinxed
lank
lonely
lonesome
misfortunate
moneyless
nothing
opprobrious
out of luck
out of sorts
pale
pathetic
pitiable
pitiful
plagued
sad sack
skint
star-crossed
stricken
suffering
tormented
tortured
traumatisedUK
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“I am a luckless man, having lived through a great many tragedies in my lifetime.”
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