Synonyms and Antonyms of impoverished
1
lacking money or material possessions
- the widespread hope that the lottery's record-setting jackpot is won by an impoverished family
beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-poor, down-and-out, famished, hard up, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, skint [chiefly British], threadbare
deprived, disadvantaged, dispossessed, unaffluent, underprivileged
bankrupt, bankrupted, bust (or busted), insolvent
possessionless, ruined
depressed, distressed, hand-to-mouth, hardscrabble, pinched, poorish, reduced, straitened
cash-strapped, low, short, tapped out
affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
2
producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation
- an impoverished field that over the years had been overgrazed
barren, bony (also boney), dead, desolate, hardscrabble, infertile, poor, stark, unfertile, unproductive, waste
bleak, inhospitable, lifeless
uncultivable, untillable
bankrupted, consumed, debilitated, depleted, diminished, drained, dried-up, enfeebled, exhausted, expended, lessened, reduced, spent, used up
arid, desert, droughty, dry, rainless, sere (also sear), thirsty, waterless
baked, dehydrated, parched, sunbaked
