Synonyms and related words :
badly off, broke, depressed, destitute, dire, distressed, donsie, doomful, down to bedrock, embarrassed, evil-starred, fatal, feeling the pinch, fortuneless, funest, hapless, hard up, ill off, ill-starred, impecunious, impoverished, in Queer Street, in adverse circumstances, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, inauspicious, indigent, land-poor, low, luckless, narrow, needy, ominous, on the edge, out of luck, out of pocket, pinched, planet-struck, poor, poorly off, reduced, sad, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of luck, short of money, squeezed, star-crossed, straitened, strapped, unblessed, underprivileged, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unmoneyed, unprovidential