| Main Entry: | beggar |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in financial trouble |
Synonyms: |
alms person, bankrupt, dependent, down-and-out, guttersnipe, indigent, mendicant, pauper, poor person, poverty-stricken person, street person, suppliant, vagrant, ward of state |
| Main Entry: | depressed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discouraged |
Synonyms: |
bad, bleeding, blue*, bummed out, cast-down, crestfallen, crummy, dejected, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dispirited, down, down and out, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dragged, fed up*, glum, grim, hurting, in a blue funk, in pain, in the dumps, in the pits, in the toilet, let down, low, low-down, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, moody, morose, on a downer, pessimistic, ripped, sad, sob story, spiritless, taken down, torn up, unhappy, weeping, woebegone |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, comforted, encouraged, happy, satisfied, unburdened |
| Main Entry: | down-and-out |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | destitute |
Synonyms: |
bankrupt, beaten, beggared, broke, broken, defeated, derelict, destitute, finished, impoverished, in the gutter, in the poorhouse, in the red, insolvent, moneyless, needy, on the skids, out of funds, outcast, penniless, poverty-stricken, ruined, vagabond, vagrant |
Antonyms: |
rich, wealthy, well-to-do |
| Main Entry: | forlorn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, inconsolable |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, alone, bereft, blue*, cheerless, comfortless, cynical, defenseless, depressed, deserted, desolate, despairing, desperate, despondent, destitute, destroyed, disconsolate, down and out, dragging, forgotten, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, futile, godforsaken, helpless, homeless, in the dumps, lonely, lonesome, lost, miserable, oppressed, pathetic, pessimistic, pitiable, pitiful, solitary, tragic, unhappy, vain, weighed down, woebegone, wretched |
| Notes: | lonely adds to solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship, while lonesome heightens the suggestion of sadness; forlorn and desolate are even more isolated and sad |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, comforted, consolable, happy, hopeful, joyful, pleased |
| Main Entry: | homeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | displaced |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, banished, deported, derelict, desolate, destitute, disinherited, displaced, dispossessed, down-and-out, estranged, exiled, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, houseless, itinerant, outcast, refugee, uncared-for, unhoused, unsettled, unwelcome, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, without a roof |
Antonyms: |
settled |
| Main Entry: | indigent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor |
Synonyms: |
beggared, busted, destitute, down and out, flat broke, hard up, homeless, impecunious, impoverished, in want, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poverty-stricken |
Antonyms: |
rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | kaput |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ruined, wrecked |
Synonyms: |
all washed up, belly-up, burned out, cooked, dead*, destroyed, done for, down and out, down for the count, down the drain, down the tubes, finished, floored, had it, nonfunctioning, on the skids, out of business, out of circulation, sunk, totaled, washed up, wiped out |
| Main Entry: | low |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed |
Synonyms: |
bad, blue*, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, disheartened, down, down and out, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dragged, fed up, forlorn, gloomy, glum, in the pits, low-down, miserable, moody, morose, sad, singing the blues, spiritless, unhappy |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, gay, happy |
| Main Entry: | melancholy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, sad |
Synonyms: |
blue*, dejected, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, dolorous, down and out, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, down*, downbeat, downcast, downhearted, dragged, droopy, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavyhearted, in blue funk, joyless, lachrymose, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, mirthless, miserable, moody, moony, mournful, pensive, saddened, saddening, somber, sorrowful, sorry*, torn up, trite, unhappy, wet blanket, wistful, woebegone, woeful |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, happy, joyful |
| Main Entry: | needy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived, impoverished |
Synonyms: |
beggared, dead broke, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down at heel, down to last cent, down-and-out, flat*, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, underprivileged, unprosperous |
Antonyms: |
affluent, rich, wealthy |