| Destitute 1. (a.) Forsaken; poverty-stricken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. 2. (a.) Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor. 3. (v. t.) To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. 4. (v. t.) To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of. 5. (v. t.) To disappoint. Thesaurus Entries badly off, bankrupt, bereft of, broke, broken, busted, deficient, depleted, deprived of, destitute of, devoid of, divested, down-and-out, drained, empty, exhausted, failed, fortuneless, hard up, homeless, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in receivership, in the gutter, in the red, in want, indigent, innocent, insolvent, landless, moneyless, necessitous, needy, on the rocks, out of funds, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty, poverty-stricken, propertyless, ruined, stripped, void, without, without a sou |