Destitute meaning

Adjective: Destitute

Pronunciation:  (des-ti,t(y)oot)

Destitute meaning:

• Extremely poor.
• Lacking something that is needed or wanted.Lacking possessions and resources.

Synonyms: beggared, impoverished, famished, necessitous, impecunious

Quotations: Lord Acton – Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Maeve Sherlock – This is a harsh and ill thought out policy based on the flawed logic that making families destitute and threatening to take their children into care will coerce them into going home.

Chanakya – He should be considered to be living who is virtuous and pious, but the life of a man who is destitute of religion and virtues is void of any blessing.

Sample sentences:

• Young recruits destitute of experience are not able to work properly on the project.
• I never thought something like this could happen to us. I became destitute overnight.
• Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.
• They are among the most abandoned and destitute people I’ve ever seen.