Destitute

What do we mean by destitute?

Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished. adjective

Utterly lacking; devoid. adjective

To forsake; desert; abandon; leave to neglect.

To deprive, as of property, preferment, or office; divest: used absolutely or with of.

To disappoint.

Deprived; bereft; under complete lack or privation, whether of what has been lost or of what has never been possessed: with of: as, destitute of honor or of prudence; destitute of the necessaries of life.

Without means; indigent; needy; poor: as, the family has been left destitute.

A destitute person, or destitute persons collectively.

To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. transitive verb

To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of. transitive verb

To disappoint. transitive verb

Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. adjective

Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor. adjective

Lacking something; devoid; especially lacking money; poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken. adjective

Poor enough to need help from others adjective

Completely wanting or lacking adjective

(followed by the preposition "of") Lacking something; devoid

Lacking money; poor, impoverished

Words that are spelled similarly to destitute:
destitute, restitute, institute, destinate, vestiture, stitute.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word destitute:
workhouse, starving, needy, orphan, orphaned, impoverished, homeless, orphanage, famine, refugees, asylum, unemployed, neglected, refugee, shelter, mentally, prostitution, desperate, sick, widow, children, elderly, charitable, poor, poverty, ill, relief, welfare, shoes, dying, relatives, women, charity, survive, clothing, unable, circumstances, assistance, persons, suffering, fortune, sisters, victims, streets, wealthy, immigrants, selling, supplies, money, portuguese, care.

Words that rhyme with destitute:
suit, attribute, moot, shoot, root, route, boot, fruit, minute, acute, astute, constitute, dispute, refute, absolute, institute, execute, cute, pursuit, impute, commute, substitute, resolute, recruit, loot, mute, hoot, enroute, brute, hirsute, flute, coot, lute, salute, chute, prosecute, dilute, lawsuit, newt, scoot, overshoot, compute, parachute, en route, repute, persecute, butte, bruit, brut, toot, prostitute, convolute, jute, snoot, bute, electrocute, klute, offshoot, cahoot, bandicoot, uproot, grapefruit, pollute, wetsuit, disrepute, reroute, scute, crapshoot, jumpsuit, shute, restitute, glute, arrowroot, swimsuit, reconstitute, groot, follow suit, breadfruit, malamute, permute, clute, telecommute, smoot, grassroot, spacesuit, beirut, subacute, lieut, absolut, to boot, whoot, bathing suit, birthday suit, crute, skute, kiwi fruit, cloot, pantsuit, sweatsuit, stone fruit.

Adjectives that are often used to describe destitute:
left, more, most, singularly, poor, less, long, present, sick, barren, plain, nigh, much, peculiarly, aged, urban, mere, savage, poorest, forlorn, brutal, near, weak, closed, rural, longer, vast, homeless, bodied, hungry, helpless, sandy, irish, dissolute, false, naked, feeble, net, humble, radical, elderly, flat, wise, body, smooth, quite, desolate, wretched, ignorant, liquid, elevated, unemployed, selfish, rocky, ill, unfortunate, least.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective destitute:
children, condition, people, women, families, persons, circumstances, family, state, refugees, men, widows, man, person, orphans, situation, woman, widow, places, child, farmers, peasants, parents, immigrants, population, boys, seamen, churches, girls, mothers, poor, members, mother, orphan, jews, regions, citizens, classes, indians, workers, parts, masses, class, soldiers, individuals, ones, girl, homes, inhabitants, portions, age, aliens, emigrants, households, districts, congregations, settlements, patients, americans, whites, blacks, millions, wife, settlers, stranger, beggar, victims, brethren, region, migrants, beggars, creatures, relatives, wanderer, army, poverty, communities, irish, strangers, freedmen, youth, fields, localities, neighborhoods, souls, populations, foreigners, tenants, beings, females.

Words that sound like destitute:
destitute, restitute, destinate, destitute of, institute, tete a tete, distant, distent, distillate, desuetude, institut, tete-a-tete, test suit, distraught, distorted, destined, distaste, distanced, dissolute, distrait, dust mite, distad, dissertate, distraughted, dust to dust, dust coat, dustiest, distasted, dust sheet, destiny, desolate, substitute, detonate, destine, decimate, destinies, destitution, desiccate, destines, desta, dot to dot, vastitude, descoteaux, desert heat, docity.