POVERTY-STRICKEN

25B6; adjective EXTREMELY POOR, impoverished, destitute, penniless, on one's beam-ends, as poor as a church mouse, in penury, impecunious, indigent, needy, in need/want; Brit. on the breadline, without a penny (to one's name); informal on one's uppers, without two pennies/farthings to rub together; Brit. informal in Queer Street; formal penurious.