1. Not having enough money to pay for necessities
   - hard up, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched, badly-off

See also: impecuniousness, poor

• low quality
• low relief
• low spirits
• low St Andrew's cross
• low status
• Low Sunday
• low temperature
• low tide
• low water
• low-altitude
• low-backed
• low-beam
• low-birth-weight baby
• low-birth-weight infant
• low-budget
• low-bush blueberry
• low-cal
• low-calorie diet
• low-carbon steel
• low-ceilinged
• low-class
• low-cost
• low-cut
• low-density
• low-density lipoprotein