poverty-stricken

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adj.

Suffering from poverty; miserably poor. See Synonyms at poor.

poverty-stricken

adj

suffering from extreme poverty

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Adj.

poverty-stricken - poor enough to need help from others

destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy

poor - having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"

poverty-stricken

adjective penniless, broke (informal), bankrupt, impoverished, short, poor, distressed, beggared, needy, destitute, down and out, skint (Brit. slang), indigent, down at heel, impecunious, dirt-poor (informal), on the breadline, flat broke (informal), penurious, on your uppers, stony-broke (Brit. slang), in queer street, without two pennies to rub together (informal), on your beam-ends two poverty-stricken bag ladies

Translations

poverty-stricken [ˈpɒvətɪˌstrɪkn] ADJ [person] → muy pobre, indigente; [area] → muy pobre
to be poverty-stricken → estar en la miseria

poverty-stricken [ˈpɒvətɪˌstrɪk/ən] adj (gen) → poverissimo/a (hum) (hard up) → al verde

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affluent depressed destitute Dickensian distressed down-at-heel impecunious impoverished indigent necessitous needful needy opulent penniless penuriously penuriousness poor poor white poorness	As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context On one side, the rich quarter stands squarely with its airy and lofty houses, laid out in regular order; on the other, is huddled together the poor quarter, a miserable collection of low hovels of a conical shape, in which a poverty-stricken multitude vegetate rather than live, since Kouka is neither a trading nor a commercial city. Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context THE poverty-stricken aspect of the street when we entered it, the dirty and dilapidated condition of the house when we drew up at the door, would have warned most men, in my position, to prepare themselves for a distressing discovery when they were admitted to the interior of the dwelling. The Two Destinies by Collins, Wilkie View in context	Pourpresture Poursuivant Pourtray Pourveyance Pousse Pousse-cafe pousse-café poussette Poussin pout pouter pouter pigeon Pouteria Pouteria campechiana nervosa Pouteria zapota poutine Pouting Poutingly POV Povert poverty poverty grass poverty level poverty line poverty trap poverty-stricken POW POW camp pow-wow powan Poway powder powder and shot powder blue powder burn powder compact Powder down powder flask powder horn Powder hose Powder hoy powder keg powder magazine powder metallurgy powder method Powder mine powder monkey Powder of projection powder photography Powder post powder puff	Poverty Reduction Forum Poverty Reduction Framework Arrangement Poverty Reduction in Difficult Environments Poverty Reduction Learning Network Poverty Reduction Outcomes Through Education Innovations and Networks Poverty Reduction Programme Poverty Reduction Sector Credit Poverty Reduction Strategy Poverty Reduction Strategy and Action Plan Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Poverty Reduction Strategy Programme Poverty Reduction Strategy Trust Fund Poverty Reduction Support Operation Poverty Related Disease College Poverty Related Infection Oriented Research Poverty Research Unit Poverty Research Unit at Sussex Poverty Rising Above the Time Poverty threshold Poverty threshold poverty trap poverty trap poverty trap Poverty traps Poverty traps Poverty traps poverty weed Poverty Welfare Association Poverty-Free Zone poverty-stricken Povery and Un-British Rule in India Povest Povey, Constance Baines povidine-iodine povidone povidone iodine Povidone-iodine Povitel POVL POVM POVMR POVO Povoinik Povolzhsky Regional Center of New Information Povolzhye economic region Povorino POVR Povray Povray POVS POVT POW POW POW POW POW POW (disambiguation) POW (disambiguation) POW camp POW camps

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As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

On one side, the rich quarter stands squarely with its airy and lofty houses, laid out in regular order; on the other, is huddled together the poor quarter, a miserable collection of low hovels of a conical shape, in which a poverty-stricken multitude vegetate rather than live, since Kouka is neither a trading nor a commercial city.

Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context

THE poverty-stricken aspect of the street when we entered it, the dirty and dilapidated condition of the house when we drew up at the door, would have warned most men, in my position, to prepare themselves for a distressing discovery when they were admitted to the interior of the dwelling.

The Two Destinies by Collins, Wilkie View in context

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