destitution
noun
, -ˈtyü-\
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Synonyms & Antonyms for destitution
Synonyms
beggary, destituteness, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, penuriousness, penury, poorness, poverty, want
Antonyms
affluence, opulence, richness, wealth, wealthiness
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The country has addressed much of the abject destitution that vast numbers of Indians lived in 25 years ago. — The Christian Science Monitor, "Giving brushoffs the brushoff," 5 Sep. 2019 Even in Mulvaney's old district, there are pockets of extreme destitution. — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, "Trump puts minorities in his 'basket of deplorables'," 29 July 2019 Second, the big gap between market income and consumption spending thrown up by the new research suggests that safety net programmes are doing their job of keeping people from utter destitution. — The Economist, "How many Americans live on $2 a day?," 20 June 2019 At adventure’s end, a crusty Nevada settler points out, clairvoyantly, that although Powell will live on in fame, most of his intrepid crew will die in destitution and obscurity. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: ‘Men on Boats’ puts women at the helm of this thrill ride," 16 July 2019 The upper classes, meanwhile, were shocked by the destitution. — Marlo Safi, National Review, "A Raw Look at the New ‘Other Half’," 29 June 2019 Those earlier estimates of extreme poverty, suggestive of widespread destitution, prompted Angus Deaton, a Nobel prize-winning economist, to propose redirecting US foreign aid to America’s poorest people. — The Economist, "How many Americans live on $2 a day?," 20 June 2019 To be sure, the PRC has lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese from the levels of destitution that existed prior to the economic liberalizations under Deng Xiaoping and his successors. — Therese Shaheen, National Review, "China’s ‘New Long March’," 5 June 2019 In his speech that April of 1875, the great Frederick Douglass declared this: The world has never seen any people turned loose to such destitution as were the four million slaves of the South. — Mitchell S. Jackson, Harper's magazine, "Opportunity Cost," 10 Feb. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'destitution.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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