About The Word Destitute
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Destitute
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What's The Definition Of Destitute?
[adj] poor enough to need help from others
Synonyms | Synonyms for Destitute: impoverished | indigent | necessitous | needy | poor | poverty-stricken Related Terms | Find terms related to Destitute: badly off | bankrupt | bereft of | broke | broken | busted | deficient | depleted | deprived of | destitute of | devoid of | divested | down-and-out | drained | empty | exhausted | failed | fortuneless | hard up | homeless | impecunious | impoverished | in need | in receivership | in the gutter | in the red | in want | indigent | innocent | insolvent | landless | moneyless | necessitous | needy | on the rocks | out of funds | penniless | penurious | poor | poverty | poverty-stricken | propertyless | ruined | stripped | void | without | without a sou See Also | Destitute In Webster's Dictionary \Des"ti*tute\, a. [L. destitutus, p. p. of destituere
to set away, leave alone, forsake; de + statuere to set. See
{Statute}.]
1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary,
or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often
followed by of.
In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
--Ps. cxli. 8.
Totally destitute of all shadow of influence.
--Burke.
2. Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of
want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins;
being destitute, afflicted, tormented. --Heb. xi.
37.
\Des"ti*tute\, v. t. 1. To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. [Obs.] To forsake or destitute a plantation. --Bacon. 2. To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of. [Obs.] Destituted of all honor and livings. --Holinshed. 3. To disappoint. [Obs.] When his expectation is destituted. --Fotherby. |
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