Advanced Vocabulary - Poor

Poor

poor adjective

having little money and few possessions.

impoverished adjective

an impoverished person or place is very poor.

penniless adjective

someone who is penniless has no money.

deprived adjective

not having the things that are essential for a comfortable life.

struggling adjective

experiencing difficulty, especially financial difficulty.

needy adjective

a needy person does not have enough money, food, clothing etc.

poverty-stricken adjective

extremely poor.

destitute adjective

with no money or possessions.

badly off adjective

someone who is badly off does not have much money.

in need

not having enough food, money, clothing, or other things that are necessary for life.

hard-pressed adjective

a person or organization that is hard-pressed does not have enough money for the things that they need.

landless adjective

landless people are poor and do not own any land.

underprivileged adjective

not having as many advantages or opportunities as most other people.

underpaid adjective

not earning enough money for work that you do.

cash-strapped adjective

not having as much money as you need.

cash-starved adjective

not provided with enough money to be able to do what is needed, usually because a government or organization has refused to give it.

underfinanced adjective

without being given enough money to operate effectively.

unsophisticated adjective

not owning fashionable and expensive things.

hard up adjective

informal not having enough of something.

starving adjective

prevented from having enough of what you need.

badly off adjective

without enough of something you need.

worse off adjective

having less money than other people or than you had before.

down-and-out adjective

very poor, with nowhere to live and no job.

hand-to-mouth adjective, adverb

with just enough money or food to live on.

dispossessed adjective

formal people who are dispossessed have had something valuable such as their land taken away from them.

hard up adjective

informal not having much money.

indigent adjective

formal very poor.

strapped adjective

informal needing money.

penurious adjective

formal extremely poor.

dirt poor adjective

informal extremely poor.

stony broke adjective

informal very poor, or without any money.

skint adjective

British informal someone who is skint does not have any money.

impecunious adjective

very formal not having much money.

mean adjective

mainly literary typical of the living conditions and environment of poor people.

badly paid

if someone is badly paid, they do not earn much money, or they earn less money than is fair for the work they do.

on the breadline

British very poor.

in queer street

British informal old-fashioned someone who is in queer street does not have very much money or owes other people a lot of money.

someone isn’t made of money

spoken used for saying that someone does not have large amounts of money.

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