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词汇 poverty-stricken
释义 poverty-stricken
adjective
uk /ˈpɒv.ə.tiˌstrɪk.ən/ us /ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬iˌstrɪk.ən/
A poverty-stricken person or place is suffering from the effects of being extremely poor: 贫困的,一贫如洗的
Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.有些乞丐既不穷也并非无家可归。
There are few jobs for the peasants who have flooded into the cities from the poverty-stricken countryside in search of work.几乎没有什么工作可以提供给从贫困的乡下涌入城市谋生的农民。
Synonyms
destitute
hard upinformal
impecuniousformal
impoverishedformal
indigentformal
needy
penniless
penuriousformal
poor(NO MONEY)
Opposites
affluent
flush(RICH)informal
loaded(RICH)informal
moneyedformal
rich(MONEY)
wealthy
well off(RICH)
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.

poverty-stricken | American Dictionary


poverty-stricken
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈpɑv·ər·tiˌstrɪk·ən/
extremely poor:
My grandparents arrived in this country as poverty-stricken immigrants.

Examples of poverty-stricken


poverty-stricken
Very few westerners ever trouble themselves seriously over the poverty-stricken conditions of the third-world people whose cheap labor helps support their lives.
These include poverty-stricken groups of the population and less economically rewarding fields of intervention, such as health prevention and promotion (5).
Some bricks made with very little straw are hurled in the direction of those who present ' conventional stereotypes ' of nuns as poverty-stricken and incompetent.
These children may have been sent back to poverty-stricken communities where each extra mouth to feed is a potential burden.
Degenerationists were also convinced that in an ideal world poverty-stricken members of the population would either voluntarily or semi-compulsorily return to what reformers depicted as warmly supportive rural communities.
Of 30 men over 60 years of age, a mere 3 were listed as 'poverty-stricken ' and only one was explicitly supported to some degree by the poor chest.
The poverty-stricken were all widowers.
We will defend the doctors and anybody else who show leniency and kindness to the poverty-stricken poor.
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It appears that it is completely proper to give back-pay to poverty-stricken judges but completely wrong to give any back-payment to the wealthy pensioners.
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The demand in developed, affluent, stable countries is met by supply from unstable, poverty-stricken states.
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There will be a mass of poverty-stricken workers, though some of them, we are told, will be not so badly off because of their savings.
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A tiny patch of land has accepted a population of 5 million, mostly in the form of poverty-stricken refugees, over the past years.
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In some cases, a ward of immense wealth is cheek by jowl with a poverty-stricken area.
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When the widow, the orphan, the fatherless, and the poverty-stricken are before you the administration of the law becomes, perhaps, a little lax.
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These are the people of whom we are primarily thinking—these helpless and inarticulate masses, poverty-stricken and shackled and bound by ancient religious and social observances.
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