impoverished
adjectiveHow many syllables in impoverished?
There are 4 syllables in the word impoverished.How to pronounce impoverished:
Definition of impoverished:
- impoverished (adjective):
- financially ruined
- destroyed financially.
- reduced to poverty poor
Synonyms for impoverished:
bankrupt
bankrupted
beggared
beggarly
broke
depressed
deprived
destitute
destroyed
dirt-poor
disadvantaged
distressed
down-and-out
famished
hard up
impecunious
indigent
necessitous
needful
needy
out at elbows
out at the elbows
out of pocket
pauperized
penniless
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Antonyms for impoverished:
advantaged
affluent
blessed
booming
boomy
born with a silver spoon in your mouth
buoyant
burgeoning
cash rich
comfortable
deep-pocketed
developed
doing it easy
easy
economically privileged
enlarged
enriched
expanding
fat
fat-cat
favored
favoured
filthy rich
financial
flourishing
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- enlightening
- bureaucracy
- affidavit
- accurately
- toxicity
- maculated
- unawakened
- discontinue
- composition
- underpinning
- patronizing
- malevolent
- calculating
- accidently
- obnoxious
- hospitable
- grammatical
- vicarious
- mediator
- consummation
- Anglocentric
- sinopias
- excitable
- enchiladas
- subjugation
- resistable
- receptiveness
- hypocrisy
- ferocity
- confederate
- collectively
- persuasion
- forsythia
- overmatched
- decisively
- colloquial
- agreeing
- millimetre
- importuning
- frighteningly
- unnatural
- twenty seven
- hyperalert
- acknowledgment
- humpty-dumpty
- unitedly
- narrow-minded
- phenomena
- fickle-minded
- duplicity
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