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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

absence, adversity, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, dearth, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, drought, empty purse, famine, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness, imperfection, impoverishment, incompleteness, indigence, lack, mendicancy, misfortune, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, omission, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, starvation, want, wantage

Dictionary Results for destitution:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

destitution
    n 1: a state without friends or money or prospects

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Destitution \Des`ti*tu"tion\, n. [L. destitutio a forsaking.]
   The state of being deprived of anything; the state or
   condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources;
   deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the
   inundation caused general destitution. Destrer

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