Word Meanings - DESTITUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESTITUTION)

• Beggary
• Want
• penury
• destitution
• indigence
• mendicancy
• Penury
• Wart
• privation
• poverty
• impecuniosity
• beggary
• Privation
• Deprivation
• absence
• negation
• loss
• bereavement
• hardship
• want

Related words: (words related to DESTITUTION)

• ABSENCE
  1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."
• HARDSHIP
  That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. Swift.
• POVERTY
  1. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. "Swathed in numblest poverty." Keble. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21. 2. Any deficiency of elements
• INDIGENCE
  The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. Cowper. Syn. -- Poverty; penury; destitution; want; need; privation; lack. See Poverty.
• MENDICANCY
  The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. Burke.
• DEPRIVATION
  the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of
• BEREAVEMENT
  The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.
• IMPECUNIOSITY
  The state of being impecunious. Thackeray. Sir W. Scott.
• PENURY
  1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. "A penury of military forces." Bacon. They were exposed to hardship and penury. Sprat. It arises in neither from penury of thought. Landor. 2. Penuriousness;
• DESTITUTION
  The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.
• PRIVATION
  1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. Bacon. 2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need;
• NEGATION
  Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has. (more info) not + the root of aio I say; cf. Gr. ah to say; cf. F. négation. See 1. The act
• BEGGARY
  1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. 2. Beggarly appearance. The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. Thackeray. Syn. -- Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy.
• DENEGATION
  Denial.
• SELF-ABNEGATION
  Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.
• ABNEGATION
  a denial; a renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.
• RENEGATION
  A denial. "Absolute renegation of Christ." Milman.