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单词 impoverished
释义

impoverished

adjective

im·​pov·​er·​ished im-ˈpä-v(ə-)risht How to pronounce impoverished (audio)
1
: reduced to poverty : poor
an impoverished family/community
2
: exhausted of richness or fertility
impoverished soils
3
of a fauna or flora : represented by few species or individuals

Synonyms

  • beggared
  • beggarly
  • broke
  • destitute
  • dirt-poor
  • down-and-out
  • famished
  • hard up
  • impecunious
  • indigent
  • necessitous
  • needful
  • needy
  • pauperized
  • penniless
  • penurious
  • poor
  • poverty-stricken
  • skint [chiefly British]
  • threadbare
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Example Sentences

the widespread hope that the lottery's record-setting jackpot is won by an impoverished family an impoverished field that over the years had been overgrazed
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Word History

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1

impoverished 1 of 2

adjective

1
as in poor
lacking money or material possessions the widespread hope that the lottery's record-setting jackpot is won by an impoverished family

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • poor
  • broke
  • beggared
  • deprived
  • bankrupt
  • needy
  • pauperized
  • indigent
  • destitute
  • penniless
  • impecunious
  • bankrupted
  • depressed
  • poverty-stricken
  • penurious
  • famished
  • needful
  • dirt-poor
  • disadvantaged
  • beggarly
  • necessitous
  • threadbare
  • underprivileged
  • distressed
  • hard up
  • skint
  • down-and-out
  • dispossessed
  • ruined
  • out of pocket
  • out at elbows
  • out at the elbows
  • reduced
  • down on one's luck
  • hardscrabble
  • insolvent
  • busted
  • pinched
  • poorish
  • unaffluent
  • short
  • bust
  • straitened
  • low
  • cash-strapped
  • possessionless
  • tapped out
  • hand-to-mouth

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • affluent
  • wealthy
  • rich
  • moneyed
  • opulent
  • monied
  • fat
  • well-to-do
  • flush
  • prosperous
  • well-off
  • well-heeled
  • comfortable
  • deep-pocketed
  • silk-stocking
  • fat-cat
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2
as in desolate
producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation an impoverished field that over the years had been overgrazed

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • desolate
  • poor
  • barren
  • bleak
  • waste
  • hardscrabble
  • unproductive
  • infertile
  • unfertile
  • bony
  • stark
  • desert
  • dry
  • inhospitable
  • dead
  • exhausted
  • depleted
  • thirsty
  • drained
  • lifeless
  • reduced
  • enfeebled
  • debilitated
  • boney
  • bankrupted
  • diminished
  • spent
  • arid
  • consumed
  • uncultivable
  • expended
  • lessened
  • untillable
  • dehydrated
  • parched
  • waterless
  • sere
  • droughty
  • used up
  • sunbaked
  • rainless
  • dried-up
  • baked
  • sear

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • rich
  • productive
  • fertile
  • fruitful
  • lush
  • arable
  • luxuriant
  • green
  • verdant
  • tillable
  • sylvan
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impoverished

2 of 2

verb

past tense of impoverish
1
as in pauperized

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • pauperized
  • beggared
  • ruined
  • bankrupted
  • reduced
  • straitened
  • busted
  • bust
  • wiped out
  • broke
  • cleaned (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • enriched
  • richened
2
as in depleted

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • depleted
  • exhausted
  • consumed
  • misspent
  • overspent
  • splurged
  • wasted
  • lost
  • squandered
  • spent
  • dissipated
  • overindulged
  • lavished
  • threw away
  • ran through
  • fiddled away
  • indulged
  • disbursed
  • shot
  • expended
  • frittered (away)
  • blew
  • laid out
  • trifled (away)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • protected
  • preserved
  • hoarded
  • saved
  • laid up
  • conserved
  • economized
  • scrimped
  • skimped
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