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What is the adjective for impoored?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs impoverish, pauperize, impoor, pauperise and poormouth which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

poor
  1. With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
  2. Of low quality.
  3. Used to express pity.
  4. Deficient in a specified way.
  5. Inadequate, insufficient.
  6. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
  7. Synonyms:
      8. bankrupt, broke, moneyless, penniless, necessitous, beggarly, penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, needful, destitute, underprivileged, deprived, bust, insolvent, strapped, fortuneless, skint, unprosperous, famished, threadbare, pauperized, beggared, as poor as a church mouse, badly off, bad off, behind eight ball, cleaned out, craptastic, dirt poor, dirt-poor, down and out, down-and-out, down at heel, empty-handed, flat broke, hard up, impoverished, in debt, in need, in penury, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, in the red, in want, low-income, low-paid, on one's beam-ends, on one's uppers … more
  8. Examples:
      9. “After Larry's company had the misfortune of going under, he became poor.”
      “You are an upstanding guy, but it doesn't mean that you can get away with poor workmanship.”
      “The farmers in the East Coast have had to deal with a poor amount of rain recently.”
impoverished
  1. Reduced to poverty.
  2. Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. poor, destitute, needy, penniless, impecunious, broke, penurious, indigent, skint, underprivileged, insolvent, ruined, bust, boracic, broken, straitened, crippled, poverty-stricken, bankrupt, pauperized, hurting, beggared, hard up, strapped, in want, necessitous, beggarly, dirt-poor, distressed, down-and-out, famished, flat broke, in need, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, needful, threadbare, down and out, on the breadline, stony broke, boracic lint, deprived, disadvantaged, have-not, low-income, strapped for cash, without a sou, stone broke, cleaned out, as poor as a church mouse … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The reforms are necessary to improve the conditions in these impoverished areas.”
      “Their exploitative actions have rendered many of the people debt-laden, bankrupt and impoverished.”
      “Only the river Guadiana Menor, with a small valley, provides a contrast to the impoverished landscape.”
pov
  1. (colloquial, Australia) Poor; impoverished; cheap.
impoverisht
  1. Obsolete form of impoverished.
poorly
  1. ill, unwell, sick
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sick, ill, unwell, indisposed, peaky, ailing, unhealthy, queasy, nauseous, bad, crook, peaked, sickly, rough, liverish, crummy, lousy, off, sickened, unsound, ropy, grotty, funny, wabbit, seedy, rotten, peculiar, queer, down, punk, low, failing, mean, off colour, below par, under the weather, run-down, out of sorts, not oneself, not well, under par, not up to par, off-colour, off-color, not very well, not in good shape, not up to snuff, infirm, nauseated, weak … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He's in a very poorly state, apparently, and the prospect of a good recovery doesn't look too hopeful.”
povvo
  1. (slang) poor, penniless
poorish
  1. Reasonably poor, quite poor.
  2. Examples:
      3. “But poorish health and frustration with the constant squabbling at the academy made him decide to call it a day.”
      “Without more or less of this knowledge, a lady, even the wife of a peer, is but a poorish thing.”
      “It was, in fact, a poorish match and the young couple were dependent more or less on Wardle.”
poore
  1. Obsolete spelling of poor
poorlier
  1. comparative form of poorly: more poorly
poorliest
  1. superlative form of poorly: most poorly
poorest
  1. superlative form of poor: most poor.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. worst, lousiest, foulest, shoddiest, vilest, crummiest, direst, grottiest, lamest, trashiest, crudest, junkiest, nastiest, wretchedest, most abhorrent, most abominable, most abysmal, most appalling, most atrocious, most average, most awful, most below par, most below standard, most contemptible, most deficient, most deplorable, most detestable, most diabolical, most disagreeable, most disgraceful, most dismal, most dissatisfactory, most distasteful, most dreadful, most execrable, most flawed, most frightful, most God-awful, most hideous, most horrendous, most imperfect, most impure, most inadequate, most inferior, most lamentable, most loathsome, most low-grade, most low-quality, most low-ranking, most malodorous … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Can China help lift the world's poorest region out of its deep economic and political malaise?”
      “The basic premise that the international companies will be providing water for the world's poorest is just off the wall.”
      “Even the poorest of the poor, when given a choice, can be choosy about brands.”
poorer
  1. comparative form of poor: more poor
  2. Synonyms:
      3. low-quality, substandard, mediocre, bad, lousy, wretched, paltry, imperfect, shabby, sorry, junk, ordinary, tawdry, sad, average, base, middling, lemon, common, indifferent, hack, déclassé, mean, worse, fair, ersatz, second-rate, low-grade, two-bit, second-class, low-rent, good-for-nothing, poor, inferior, unsatisfactory, miserable, terrible, execrable, cheap, shoddy, rotten, useless, worthless, sub-par, poxy, below standard, bargain-basement, awful, unsound, rubbishy … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “People with shortsightedness have poorer ability to focus accurately by accommodation, which leads to even more retinal blur and defocus.”
      “Less well-off families find it as much of a necessity as wealthy ones, and fuel duties have raised the overall tax burden on poorer families.”
      “The abolition of most grammar schools kicked away the ladder for children from poorer backgrounds.”
impoverishing
  1. present participle of impoverish
  2. Synonyms:
      3. exhausting, draining, depleting, bleeding, emptying, sapping, diminishing, reducing, depriving, using up, sucking dry, wearing out, expending, consuming, spending, wasting, dissipating, finishing, squandering, burning, absorbing, devouring, drawing down, going through, running through, bleeding dry, milking, using, drawing, bankrupting, straining, eating up, playing out, frittering away, getting through, emptying out, washing up, attenuating, slashing, utilizing, undermining, drying, utilising, wearing down, drying up, running down, running out, taking last of, swallowing up, digging into … more
pauperized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pauperize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bankrupted, impoverished, ruined, broke, brake, broken, busted, beggared, depleted, disfigured, drained, exhausted, fleeced, pillaged, brought to ruin, cleaned out, brought down, reduced to beggary, wiped out, crippled financially, crippled, reduced to penury, made insolvent, reduced to destitution, made bankrupt, made destitute, brought someone to their knees, made poor, made penniless, liquidated, bled dry, caused to go bankrupt, wrecked, decimated, diminished, ruinated, reduced, crushed, folded, made somebody skint, reduced to poverty, made somebody broke, folded up, cleared out, reduced to nothing, become insolvent, went into Chapter 11, gone into Chapter 11, went bankrupt, became insolvent … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “We have reason to believe that the advantages of the change are becoming more extensively perceptible to the pauperized laborers.”
pauperizing
  1. present participle of pauperize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bankrupting, impoverishing, ruining, breaking, busting, beggaring, depleting, disfiguring, draining, exhausting, fleecing, pillaging, bringing to ruin, cleaning out, bringing down, reducing to beggary, wiping out, crippling financially, crippling, reducing to penury, making insolvent, reducing to destitution, making bankrupt, making destitute, bringing someone to their knees, making poor, making penniless, liquidating, bleeding dry, causing to go bankrupt, reducing to poverty, folding, wrecking, reducing to nothing, making somebody broke, making somebody skint, crushing, diminishing, decimating, ruinating, reducing, becoming insolvent, folding up, going into Chapter 11, going bankrupt, clearing out, putting into liquidation, selling out, bleeding, cheating … more
impoored
  1. simple past tense and past participle of impoor
pauperised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pauperise
pauperising
  1. present participle of pauperise
poormouthed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of poormouth
  2. Synonyms:
      3. diminished, belittled, denigrated, depreciated, devalued, decried, demeaned, deprecated, disparaged, derogated, maligned, reviled, marginalised, marginalized, undervalued, vilified, vilipended, derided, dissed, discounted, dismissed, insulted, minimised, minimized, rubbished, scorned, slated, slurred, trashed, underrated, aspersed, cheapened, vituperated, abused, dispraised, panned, detracted from, bad-mouthed, dumped on, poor-mouthed, ran down, run down, wrote off, written off, scoffed at, slagged off, talked down, trash-talked, cast aspersions on, did a hatchet job on … more
poormouthing
  1. present participle of poormouth
  2. Synonyms:
      3. diminishing, belittling, denigrating, depreciating, devaluing, decrying, demeaning, deprecating, disparaging, derogating, maligning, reviling, marginalising, marginalizing, undervaluing, vilifying, vilipending, deriding, dissing, discounting, dismissing, insulting, minimising, minimizing, rubbishing, scorning, slating, slurring, trashing, underrating, aspersing, cheapening, vituperating, abusing, dispraising, panning, detracting from, bad-mouthing, dumping on, running down, writing off, scoffing at, slagging off, talking down, trash-talking, casting aspersions on, doing a hatchet job on, having a go at, playing down, pulling apart … more
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