Destitution

Noun

 * 1)  The action of deserting or abandoning.
 * 2)  Discharge from office; dismissal.
 * 3) The condition of lacking something.
 * 4) * 1906, ‘Mark Twain’, in The Bible According to Mark Twain, 1996, p. 330:
 * He requires of his fellow man obedience to a very creditable code of morals, but he observes without shame or disapproval his God's utter destitution of morals.
 * 1) An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support.
 * 2) * 2009, Rahila Gupta, The Guardian, 4 Aug 2009:
 * Destitution forces many asylum seekers to end up working for extremely low wages in catering, cleaning and construction, for example, without any protection against unscrupulous employers.

Adjectives for Destitution
absolute; utter; penniless; hopeless: abandoned ; indigent.

Verbs for Destitution
abandon to—; avoid—; engulf by—; escape—; forsake to—; imply—; lift from—; leave in—; reduce to—; throw into—; verge on—; —approaches; —deprives; --increases; —menaces; —stalks.

Synonyms for Destitution
indigence, lack, poverty, want, privation, distress, need, beggary, pauperism, penury.

Antonyms for Destitution
riches, wealth, luxury, plenty, abundance, affluence, security, profusion, prosperity, opulence.

Related terms

 * destitute

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

Etymology
From destitution:, from  destitutionem:, from destituere:.

Translations

 * Finnish: puute


 * Bulgarian: мизерия
 * Catalan: indigència
 * Finnish: varattomuus, äärimmäinen köyhyys
 * German:


 * Greek: ,
 * Russian: нужда, нищета
 * Spanish:

Etymology
Borrowed from destitutionem:.

Noun

 * 1) discharge, dismissal
 * 2) deposition (of a politician etc.)