'Destitution' definitions:
Definition of 'destitution'
From: WordNet
noun
A state without friends or money or prospects
Definition of 'Destitution'
From: GCIDE
- Destitution \Des`ti*tu"tion\, n. [L. destitutio a forsaking.] The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution. Destrer
Synonyms of 'destitution'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absence,
- adversity,
- bare cupboard,
- bare subsistence,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- dearth,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- deprivation,
- drought,
- empty purse,
- famine,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- homelessness,
- impecuniousness,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- incompleteness,
- indigence,
- lack,
- mendicancy,
- misfortune,
- moneylessness,
- necessitousness,
- necessity,
- need,
- neediness,
- omission,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- privation,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- starvation,
- want,
- wantage