Synonyms and related words :
bare-handed, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, deprived, disadvantaged, empty-handed, famished, fleeced, ghettoized, half-starved, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, mendicant, necessitous, needy, on relief, on short commons, out at elbows, poor, poverty-stricken, shorthanded, starved, starveling, starving, stripped, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, underprivileged, unfed, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied