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adjective
lacking sufficient money
Synonyms: bad off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, behind eight ball, broke, destitute, dirt poor, down-and-out, empty-handed, flat, flat broke, fortuneless, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, in need, insolvent, in want, low, meager, moneyless, necessitous, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, poverty-stricken, reduced, scanty, stone broke, strapped, suffering, truly needy, underprivileged, unprosperous
Antonyms: affluent, rich, wealthy
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adjective
deficient, inadequate
Synonyms: base, below par, common, contemptible, crude, diminutive, dwarfed, exiguous, faulty, feeble, humble, imperfect, incomplete, inferior, insignificant, insufficient, lacking, low-grade, lowly, meager, mean, mediocre, miserable, modest, niggardly, ordinary, paltry, pitiable, pitiful, plain, reduced, rotten, scanty, second-rate, shabby, shoddy, skimpy, slight, sorry, sparse, subnormal, subpar, substandard, trifling, trivial, unsatisfactory, valueless, weak, worthless
Antonyms: adequate, sufficient, superior
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adjective
weak, unfertile
Synonyms: bare, barren, depleted, exhausted, feeble, fruitless, impaired, imperfect, impoverished, indisposed, infertile, infirm, puny, sick, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive, worthless
Antonyms: fertile, potent, strong
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adjective
unfortunate, unhappy
Synonyms: commiserable, hapless, ill-fated, luckless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, rueful, unlucky, wretched
Antonyms: fortunate, great, happy, lucky