impoverished

ADJ ยากแค้น  ลำบาก  ยากจน  จน  pauperized poor rich yeak-kean

IMPOVERISHED

pp. Reduced to poverty; exhausted.

impoverished

impoverished adjective 1 an impoverished peasant farmer: poor, poverty-stricken, penniless, destitute, indigent, impecunious, needy, beggared, beggarly, pauperized, down-and-out, bankrupt, ruined, insolvent; informal (flat ) broke, hard up, dirt poor, on skid row; formal penurious. ANTONYMS rich, wealthy. 2 the soil is impoverished: weakened, exhausted, drained, sapped, depleted, spent; barren, unproductive, unfertile, unfruitful. ANTONYMS rich, fertile.

impoverished

impoverished adjective 1 an impoverished peasant farmer: poor, poverty-stricken, penniless, penurious, destitute, indigent, impecunious, needy, pauperized, in distressed /reduced /straitened circumstances, in want, in need, down and out, on the breadline; bankrupt, ruined, insolvent, wiped out, cleaned out, broken, crippled, without a penny to one's name; informal broke, flat broke, stony broke, on one's uppers, strapped (for cash ), on one's beam ends, bust, hard up, without two pennies /farthings to rub together, without a bean, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, on skid row; Brit. informal skint, without a shot in one's locker; Brit. rhyming slang boracic (lint ); N. Amer. informal stone broke, without a red cent; rare beggared. ANTONYMS rich, wealthy. 2 the soil is impoverished: weakened, exhausted, drained, sapped, diminished, depleted, enervated, sucked dry, used up, spent, played out; barren, unproductive, unfertile, arid, uncultivatable. ANTONYMS rich, fertile.