English

Adjective

Sense: lacking financial means

Synonyms

• almsless
• arm   [⇒ thesaurus]
• badly off
• bankrupt
• beggared
• beggarly
• boracic
• broke
• broken   [⇒ thesaurus]
• broker than the Ten Commandments
• destitute
• dirt poor
• disadvantaged
• down and out
• down at heel
• down on one's luck
• down on one's uppers
• empty-handed
• feeling the pinch
• flat
• hard up
• impecunious
• impoverished
• in need
• indigent
• insolvent
• lower-class
• necessitous
• needy
• oofless(dated, UK, slang)
• pauperized
• penniless
• penurious
• pinched
• pok kai(Malaysia, slang)
• poor
• poor as a church mouse
• poor as a rat
• poor as Job
• possessionless
• poverty-ridden
• poverty-stricken
• shillingless
• skint
• stone-broke
• stony-broke
• strapped
• stuck(archaic, slang)
• threadbare(archaic or obsolete)
• unwealthy
• wealthless

Antonyms

• affluent
• comfortably off
• flush
• loaded
• pecunious
• rich   [⇒ thesaurus]
• wealthy   [⇒ thesaurus]
• well-fixed
• well-heeled
• well off
• well-off
• well-to-do

Hypernyms

• lacking   [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• underemployed
• underprivileged
• unemployed   [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

Further reading