| misery | | |
| n. (state) | 1. miserableness, misery, wretchedness | a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune.; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable" |
| ~ ill-being | lack of prosperity or happiness or health. |
| ~ concentration camp | a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions. |
| ~ living death | a state of constant misery. |
| ~ woe, suffering | misery resulting from affliction. |
| n. (feeling) | 2. misery | a feeling of intense unhappiness.; "she was exhausted by her misery and grief" |
| ~ sadness, unhappiness | emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being. |
| indigent | | |
| adj. | 1. destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken | poor enough to need help from others. |
| ~ poor | having little money or few possessions.; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret" |
| miserable | | |
| adj. | 1. miserable, suffering, wretched | very unhappy; full of misery.; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" |
| ~ unhappy | experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent.; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad" |
| adj. | 2. hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched | deserving or inciting pity.; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" |
| ~ unfortunate | not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune.; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" |
| adj. | 3. abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy | of the most contemptible kind.; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick" |
| ~ contemptible | deserving of contempt or scorn. |
| adj. | 4. deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched | of very poor quality or condition.; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" |
| ~ inferior | of low or inferior quality. |
| adj. | 5. miserable, wretched | characterized by physical misery.; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor" |
| ~ uncomfortable | providing or experiencing physical discomfort.; "an uncomfortable chair"; "an uncomfortable day in the hot sun" |
| adj. | 6. measly, miserable, paltry | contemptibly small in amount.; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans" |
| ~ meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy | deficient in amount or quality or extent.; "meager resources"; "meager fare" |
| needy | | |
| n. (group) | 1. needy | needy people collectively.; "they try to help the needy" |
| ~ poor, poor people | people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group).; "the urban poor need assistance" |
| adj. | 2. needy | demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree. |
| ~ demanding | requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill.; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding" |
| poor | | |
| n. (group) | 1. poor, poor people | people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group).; "the urban poor need assistance" |
| ~ plural, plural form | the form of a word that is used to denote more than one. |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| ~ homeless | poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in.; "the homeless became a problem in the large cities" |
| ~ needy | needy people collectively.; "they try to help the needy" |
| adj. | 2. poor | having little money or few possessions.; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret" |
| ~ underprivileged | lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society. |
| ~ broke, bust, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke | lacking funds.; "`skint' is a British slang term" |
| ~ destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken | poor enough to need help from others. |
| ~ hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched | not having enough money to pay for necessities. |
| ~ moneyless | having no money.; "virtually moneyless rural regions" |
| ~ unprovided for | without income or means.; "left his family unprovided for" |
| adj. | 3. poor | characterized by or indicating poverty.; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town" |
| ~ beggarly, mean | marked by poverty befitting a beggar.; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut" |
| ~ slummy | (of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty.; "a slummy part of town"; "slum conditions" |
| adj. | 4. poor | lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances.; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value" |
| ~ resourceless | lacking or deficient in natural resources. |
| adj. | 5. inadequate, poor, short | not sufficient to meet a need.; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience" |
| ~ insufficient, deficient | of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement.; "insufficient funds" |
| adj. | 6. poor | unsatisfactory.; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor" |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| wretched | | |
| adj. | 1. despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched | morally reprehensible.; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" |
| ~ evil | morally bad or wrong.; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
| pauper | | |
| n. (person) | 1. pauper | a person who is very poor. |
| ~ beggar, mendicant | a pauper who lives by begging. |
| ~ derelict | a person without a home, job, or property. |
| ~ have-not, poor person | a person with few or no possessions. |
| ~ starveling | someone who is starving (or being starved). |
| impoverish | | |
| v. (possession) | 1. impoverish | make poor. |
| ~ deprive | keep from having, keeping, or obtaining. |
| ~ reduce | lessen and make more modest.; "reduce one's standard of living" |
| ~ pauperise, pauperize, beggar | reduce to beggary. |
| ~ bankrupt, ruin, smash, break | reduce to bankruptcy.; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him" |
| v. (change) | 2. deprive, impoverish | take away. |
| ~ disestablish | deprive (an established church) of its status. |
| ~ decline, worsen | grow worse.; "Conditions in the slum worsened" |
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