Meaning

2 senses
  1. Lacking something; devoid.

    completely wanting or lacking

  2. Lacking money, poor, impoverished; especially, extremely so.

    Near-synonym: penniless

    May 24, 2018, Alex Vadukul in The New York Times, The Forgotten Entertainer Rag

    біднийbidnyj, нужденнийnuždennyj

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Tom is destitute.

    Том знаходиться в скрутних обставинах. — deniko

  2. Sami's arrest left his family destitute.

  3. It was there that this destitute child was born.

  4. The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

    deDie schlimmste Einsamkeit ist es, wahrer Freundschaft zu entbehren. — Yorwba

  5. The church was a safe haven for the destitute paupers.

    deDie Kirche war eine sichere Zuflucht für die mittellosen Armen. — Yorwba

Translations

4 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken:

Origin

From Middle English destitute, destitut, from Latin dēstitūtus.

From Middle English destitute, destitut, from Latin dēstitūtus.

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Forms

more destitute, most destitute
Comparativemore destitute Lesson
Superlativemost destitute Lesson

regular

Synonyms

62 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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