DESTITUTE


Meaning of DESTITUTE in English

adj. 25B6; adjective

she was left destitute : PENNILESS, poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken, impecunious, without a penny to one's name; needy, in straitened circumstances, distressed, badly off; Brit. on the breadline; informal hard up, (flat) broke, strapped (for cash), without a brass farthing, without two pennies to rub together, without a bean; Brit. informal stony broke, skint; N. Amer. informal stone broke, without a red cent.

we were destitute of clothing : DEVOID, bereft, deprived, in need; lacking, without, deficient in, wanting.

rich.

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