Usually means: Lacking sufficient financial resources; impoverished.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word poverty-stricken:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. poverty-stricken: Merriam-Webster
  2. poverty-stricken: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. poverty-stricken: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. poverty-stricken, poverty-stricken: Collins English Dictionary
  5. poverty-stricken: Vocabulary.com
  6. Poverty-stricken, poverty-stricken: Wordnik
  7. poverty-stricken: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. poverty-stricken: Wiktionary
  9. poverty-stricken: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. poverty-stricken: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. poverty-stricken: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. poverty-stricken: Dictionary.com
  13. poverty-stricken: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. poverty-stricken: Rhymezone
  15. poverty-stricken: FreeDictionary.org
  16. poverty-stricken: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. poverty-stricken: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poverty-stricken: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poverty-stricken: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Very poor.

Similar:
poor, destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy, necessitous, dirt-poor, dirt poor, penurious, strapped for cash, more...

Opposite:
wealthy, rich, prosperous, affluent

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Similar:
poor, destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy, necessitous, dirt-poor, dirt poor, penurious, strapped for cash, more...

Opposite:
wealthy, rich, prosperous, affluent



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