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destitute
[ des-ti-toot, -tyoot ]
adjective
- without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter.
Synonyms: impoverished, penniless, necessitous, indigent, poor, needy
Antonyms: affluent
- deprived of, devoid of, or lacking (often followed by of ):
destitute of children.
Synonyms: deficient
verb (used with object)
- to leave destitute.
destitute
/ ˈdɛstɪˌtjuːt /
adjective
- lacking the means of subsistence; totally impoverished
- postpositivefoll byof completely lacking; deprived or bereft (of)
destitute of words
- obsolete.abandoned or deserted
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Derived Forms
- ˈdestiˌtuteness, noun
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Other Words From
- desti·tutely adverb
- desti·tuteness noun
- pre·desti·tute adjective
- un·desti·tute adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of destitute1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of destitute1
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Example Sentences
When everyone is struggling, how much is to be offered to the more destitute, and how much is to be accepted?
What happened to the Christian concern to “love the least of these,” the most vulnerable, the most destitute?
And by 1918 much of Central and Eastern Europe was starving and destitute.
In critical ways, Russia remains technologically adept, but by its current behavior Russia is also revealed as morally destitute.
From the American Dust Bowl, thousands of destitute farm families stream westward.
When the old couple became bankrupt and died, the old nurse found herself alone and almost destitute in the world.
Louis was benevolent, but destitute of the decision of character requisite to hold the reins of government in so stormy a period.
Now here is a lady, well educated and delicately nurtured, who is destitute of the common necessaries of life.
It must be borne in mind, in this consideration, that the apes differ from the other tree-dwellers in being destitute of claws.
The lower jaws in both were heavy, while the woman was almost destitute of a chin—a marked ape-like characteristic.
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