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Synonyms for impoverished
ɪmˈpɒv ər ɪʃt, -ˈpɒv rɪʃtim·pov·er·ished
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
impoverished
Synonyms:
deficient, drained, exhausted, inadequate, insufficient, mean, miserly, narrow, niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimped, short, small, sparing, stingy, straitenedAntonyms:
abounding, abundant, adequate, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, complete, copious, enough, exuberant, full, generous, large, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, replete, rich, sufficient, teeming
Princeton's WordNet
destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-strickenadjective
poor enough to need help from others
Synonyms:
needy, innocent, indigent, barren, wiped out(p), devoid, necessitous, broken, free, poverty-stricken, destitutebroken, wiped out(p), impoverishedadjective
destroyed financially
"the broken fortunes of the family"
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "impoverished":
depleted, poor, depauperate, poverty, destitute, disadvantaged, poverty-stricken, impoverishment
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#42 | free | |
#350 | small | |
#746 | short | |
#1008 | mean | |
#1711 | poor | |
#2535 | broken | |
#3761 | poverty | |
#3889 | narrow | |
#7271 | innocent | |
#10208 | inadequate | |
#10242 | insufficient | |
#14135 | disadvantaged | |
#14778 | exhausted | |
#15777 | scarce | |
#16860 | drained | |
#17142 | deficient | |
#19779 | needy | |
#21173 | depleted | |
#24547 | barren | |
#27252 | devoid | |
#30192 | impoverished | |
#35529 | indigent | |
#37666 | scant | |
#43391 | destitute | |
#44975 | sparing | |
#49769 | stingy | |
#67164 | scanty | |
#84828 | impoverishment | |
#113305 | miserly | |
#188960 | straitened | |
#226840 | niggardly |
How to use impoverished in a sentence?
Given that multiple factors seem to contribute to falling in the lower 5 percent on school readiness measures - including living in an impoverished household, primary language other than English, lower maternal education, and black maternal race, as well as late preterm( birth) - it is reasonable to believe that the reasons why some late preterm children are at risk are multi-factorial.
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
I am a third-grade teacher in an impoverished elementary school, my students are inquisitive, voracious readers who are craving to discover the newest adventure in their favorite book series.
Given that multiple factors seem to contribute to falling in the lower 5 percent on school readiness measures - including living in an impoverished household, primary language other than English, lower maternal education, and black maternal race, as well as late preterm (birth) - it is reasonable to believe that the reasons why some late preterm children are at risk are multi-factorial.
Everyone here knows the disaster and the poverty happened long before that hurricane hit, all the hurricane did was make bare what we ignore each and every day, which is that there are whole sets of communities that are impoverished, that don't have meaningful opportunity, that don't have hope and they are forgotten.
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