adj
Meaning 1
Reduced to poverty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
impoverished
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃt/
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CMU ARPABET: IH2 M P AA1 V R IH0 SH T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- English has an impoverished inflectional system.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
simple past and past participle of impoverish
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
destroyed financially
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the broken fortunes of the family
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: broken, wiped out(p)
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
poor enough to need help from others
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: empobrit — Reduced to poverty
- French: appauvri — Reduced to poverty
- German: verarmt — Reduced to poverty
- Italian: impoverito — Reduced to poverty
- Kazakh: кедейленген (kedeileñen) — Reduced to poverty
- Kazakh: басынан бағы тайған (basynan bağy taiğan) — Reduced to poverty
- Macedonian: осиромашен (osiromašen) — Reduced to poverty
- Norwegian Bokmål: utarmet — Reduced to poverty
- Portuguese: empobrecido — Reduced to poverty
- Russian: обедне́вший (obednévšij) — Reduced to poverty
- Russian: обнища́вший (obniščávšij) — Reduced to poverty
- Spanish: empobrecido — Reduced to poverty
- Ukrainian: збідні́лий (zbidnílyj) — Reduced to poverty
- French: appauvri — Rendered poor in something
- Ukrainian: збі́днений (zbídnenyj) — Rendered poor in something
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