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impoverished

[ im-pov-er-isht, -pov-risht ]

adjective

  1. reduced to poverty.
  2. (of a country, area, etc.) having few trees, flowers, birds, wild animals, etc.
  3. deprived of strength, vitality, creativeness, etc.:

    an impoverished attempt at humor.



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Other Word Forms

  • ܲi·DZİ· adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of impoverished1

First recorded in 1625–35; impoverish + -ed 2
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Synonym Study

See poor.
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Many hold Hamas responsible for plunging the tiny, impoverished territory into the worst crisis faced by Palestinians in more than 70 years.

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Iamaleava quit, then he was canned, and rightfully so, and that’s certainly not the scenario envisioned by all those impoverished college athletic pioneers of years past.

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The self-proclaimed prophet claims to have cured people of HIV, made the blind see, changed the fortunes of the impoverished and, on at least one occasion, walked on air.

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Don’t we all want better for all people who are this impoverished?

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In the meantime, the new administrators warn that the Kennedy Center is impoverished, that the facility has become shoddy and that some of its programming ill serves the American ideal.

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