Synonyms for impoverished
ɪmˈpɒv ər ɪʃt, -ˈpɒv rɪʃtim·pov·er·ished

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1. impoverished

   Synonyms:
   deficient, drained, exhausted, inadequate, insufficient, mean, miserly, narrow, niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimped, short, small, sparing, stingy, straitened

   Antonyms:
   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 WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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, destitute

   Antonyms:
   rich, preserved

2. broken, wiped out(p), impoverishedadjective

   destroyed financially

   "the broken fortunes of the family"

   Antonyms:
   preserved, rich

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1. List of paraphrases for "impoverished":

   depleted, poor, depauperate, poverty, destitute, disadvantaged, poverty-stricken, impoverishment

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How to use impoverished in a sentence?

1. Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

   This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.

2. Sonia Sotomayor:

   It's hard to see how impoverished people, unfamiliar with the workings of this government, of this country, are going to find lawyers, it seems like a pyrrhic offering to say that an individual hearing is of any benefit to them.

3. Fernando Melendez:

   The only thing foreign companies have done is pollute and foment distrust among local populations, we don't see any benefits and remain an impoverished region.

4. Richard Milhous Nixon:

   If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Proposal to reform welfare programs)

5. Roland Barthes:

   To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.