des·ti·tute 
(dĕstĭ-tt′, -tyt′)
(dĕstĭ-tt′, -tyt′)adj.
1. Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished.
2. Utterly lacking; devoid: Young recruits destitute of any experience.
[Middle English, from Latin dēstitūtus, past participle of dēstituere, to abandon : dē-, de- + statuere, to set; see stā- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
desti·tute′ness n.