poverty-stricken

adjective

/ˈpɒv.ə.tiˌstrɪk.ən/

/ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬i-/

Definition

› describes a person or place suffering from the effects of being extremely poor: Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless. There are few jobs for the peasants who have flooded into the cities from the poverty-stricken countryside in search of work.Poverty and poor

(Definition of poverty-stricken adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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