Synonyms for destitution
All synonyms
Noun
poverty, indigence, privation, penury, misery, pauperism, desolation, distress, lack, absence, deficiency, need, beggary, pennilessness, moneylessness, necessity, dearth, mendicancy, want dated
Definitions
- n. 1
The condition of lacking something.
Related words
- Word family
- destitute
Forms
- Plural
- destitutions → poverties, indigences, privations, penuries…
Example sentences
- poverty The issue of Third World poverty is very pressing.
- penury Can Tebboune lead Algeria from penury to prosperity?
By length
- 4 letters
- need1, want1, lack1
- 6 letters
- misery3, dearth1, penury3
- 7 letters
- poverty3, absence2, beggary
- 8 letters
- distress2
- 9 letters
- necessity4, privation3, indigence, pauperism
- 10 letters
- deficiency4, desolation4, mendicancy
- 13 letters
- pennilessness, moneylessness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (misery3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- dénuement
- Español
- indigencia