Word Meanings - DESTITUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.

Additional info about word: DESTITUTE

1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke. 2. Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented. Heb. xi. 37.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESTITUTE)

• Bereft
• Robbed
• deprived
• destitute
• denied
• spoiled
• Devoid
• Void
• wanting
• unendowed
• unprovided
• Empty
• Vacant
• void
• clear
• unencumbered
• unobstructed
• unoccupied
• waste
• uninhabited
• unfrequented
• devoid
• vacuous
• unulled
• unfurnished
• untenanted
• evacuated
• deficient
• weak
• Billy
• idle
• senseless
• Forlorn
• Abandoned
• deserted
• forsaken
• solitary
• desolate
• hapless
• luckless
• helpless
• disconsolate
• lone
• woe-begone
• lonesome
• wretched
• Naked
• Nude
• bare
• unclothed
• denuded
• undraped
• defenceless
• unqualified
• uncolored
• unvarnished
• mere
• simple

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESTITUTE)

• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven

Related words: (words related to DESTITUTE)

• DENIZE
  To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize. There was a private act made for denizing the children of Richard HillStrype.
• NAKER
  See NACRE
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• BILLY GOAT
  A male goat.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• HAPLESS
  Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• DENITRIFY
  To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• ENDENIZATION
  The act of naturalizing.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• RATTLESNAKE
  Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common
• ENDENIZE
  To endenizen.