destitute

destitute
adj
1. poverty-stricken, impoverished, penurious, impecunious, beggared, pauperized; indigent, poor, needy, necessitous, bad off, badly off; pinched, straitened, distressed, Inf. strapped, Inf. up against it, Inf. on one's uppers, Inf. hard up; financially embarrassed, out of cash, Inf. short, Brit. Sl. skint, All Inf. broke, dead broke, flat broke, stone broke; bankrupt, ruined, wiped out, Inf. on the rocks, insolvent, overdrawn, in the red; down and out, out at the elbows, down at the heels, seedy.
2.Usu. destitute of
devoid, deprived, deficient, bereft, bereaved; lacking, wanting, in need; without, sans.
3. helpless, stranded, high and dry, Sl. up the creek, Inf. over a barrel; defenseless, unprotected, unprovided, unsupplied; exposed, naked, vulnerable.

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