Synonyms and related words :
bare-handed, beggarly, disqualified, empty-handed, famished, half-starved, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-fitted, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, incapable, incompetent, on short commons, pauperized, poor, shorthanded, starved, starveling, starving, unadapted, unarmed, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, unequipped, unfed, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, unreplenished, unsuited, unsupplied