poverty-stricken

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

not having much or enough money
poorHer family was poor and didn't own a computer.
pennilessAt the time, I was a penniless student.
impoverishedBenefits should be targeted at the most impoverished families.
disadvantagedThe scheme was set up to help disadvantaged children.
deprivedDeprived areas will be hardest hit by the cuts.

penniless | American Dictionary

penniless
adjective, adverb
us/ˈpen·i·ləs/
without any money at all:
a penniless youth

penniless | Business English

penniless
adjective
uk /ˈpeniləs/us
without any money at all:
A series of bad investments left him almost penniless.

Examples of penniless

penniless
The fact that he was penniless by the turn of the sixties is virtually a postscript on the final page of the text.
But they also benefited because the penniless and hung-over shepherds returned for another year of interminably monotonous shepherding.
These last included corporal punishment, for fines were of no effect on penniless spinners and weavers.
Criss notes that foreign-relief agencies supplemented the badly organized and penniless municipal organizations.
Many had arrived penniless and had rapidly thrown themselves into work to support themselves and their families.
He is released after a two-year prison sentence, a widowed, penniless old man.
Jaquinet's own self-deception in becoming enamored with an ambitious but penniless young man.
Eyre is a quick-thinking confidence man who, while still a penniless apprentice, manages to trick the master of a foreign ship into selling him his whole cargo on credit.
He rented out slum flats to the penniless and jobless, and made thousands of pounds by fraud.
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