Synonyms of poverty-stricken

1 Syllable

short, poor

2 Syllables

shabby, bankrupt, poorer, scrubby, tatty, poorest, scrubbier, strapped, shabbier, wanting, potest, stranded, squalid, needful, needy, needier, curer, broke, poter

3 Syllables

indigent, penniless, penurious, beggarly, down-and-out, beggared, moneyless, unmoneyed, suffering, distressed

4 Syllables

unprosperous, destitute, emptyhanded, impencunious, necessitous, empty-handed, fortuneless

5 Syllables

impoverished