MEANING
Lacking the money or resources needed for adequate living conditions.
Use it for
Resource deprivation; unequal public services; economic vulnerabilityName deprivation while showing the capacities that poverty does not erase.
Words that belong together
- impoverished community
- impoverished district
- impoverished region
On the page
The impoverished district maintained a volunteer reading room.
A factory closure left the region more impoverished than neighboring areas.
Teachers in the impoverished community shared materials across classrooms.
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- Base
- impoverished
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Can describe individuals, communities, or regions. More emphatic than low-income; do not imply a lack of culture, solidarity, or intelligence. Comparative: more impoverished; superlative: most impoverished. Participial source verb [base, third-person present, past, past participle, -ing]: impoverish, impoverishes, impoverished, impoverished, impoverishing. Record these as same-lexeme form aliases, not additional vocabulary entries.
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