poverty-stricken
adjective
[ ˈpɒvətɪˌstrɪk(ə)n ]
• extremely poor.
• "a poverty-stricken nation"
Similar:
extremely poor,
impoverished,
destitute,
penniless,
on one's beam-ends,
as poor as a church mouse,
without a sou,
dirt poor,
in penury,
penurious,
impecunious,
indigent,
needy,
needful,
in need/want,
unable to make ends meet,
down and out,
necessitous,
beggarly,
moneyless,
bankrupt,
in straitened circumstances,
on the breadline,
broke,
flat broke,
cleaned out,
strapped for cash,
strapped,
on one's uppers,
stony broke,
skint,
in Queer Street,
stone broke,
pauperized,
beggared,
