Synonyms and related words :
badly off, desperate, distressed, down to bedrock, embarrassed, feeling the pinch, hard pressed, ill off, impecunious, in Queer Street, in desperate straits, in extremis, in extremities, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, land-poor, narrow, on the edge, out of pocket, pinched, poor, poorly off, reduced, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, sorely pressed, squeezed, straitened, strapped, unmoneyed, unprosperous, up against it