poverty-stricken

adj.
Suffering from poverty; miserably poor. See synonyms at poor.

adjective

Having little or no money or wealth: beggarly, destitute, down-and-out, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poor. Informal broke, strapped. Idioms: hard up, on one's uppers. See rich/poor.

adj

Definition: in great need; financially poor
Antonyms: rich, wealthy

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: poor enough to need help from others
  Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - forarmet

Nederlands (Dutch)
(straat)arm

Français (French)
adj. - misérable

Deutsch (German)
adj. - notleidend, armselig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - πάμπτωχος, εξαθλιωμένος

Italiano (Italian)
poverissimo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - indigente, pobre

Русский (Russian)
обнищавший

Español (Spanish)
adj. - menesteroso, necesitado

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - utarmad

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
为贫穷所困恼的, 非常贫穷的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 為貧窮所困惱的, 非常貧窮的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 매우 가난한, 가난에 시달리는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 非常に貧乏な, みすぼらしい

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) معوز, معدم, مدقع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מוכה-עוני‬

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