Meaning

3 senses
  1. (place, usually)Filled with or plagued by poverty.

  2. Suffering from poverty.

  3. During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty.

Origin

From poverty + ridden.

From poverty + ridden.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

more poverty-ridden, most poverty-ridden

Synonyms

2 synonyms
suffering from poverty:poorA1poverty-stricken

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
poverty-ridden — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto