Synonyms:
- badly off,
- bare-handed,
- beggarly,
- depressed,
- dire,
- distressed,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- empty-handed,
- evil-starred,
- famished,
- fatal,
- feeling the pinch,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- half-starved,
- hapless,
- hard up,
- ill-equipped,
- ill-furnished,
- ill-provided,
- ill-starred,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- in Queer Street,
- in adverse circumstances,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- inauspicious,
- land-poor,
- luckless,
- narrow,
- ominous,
- on short commons,
- on the edge,
- out of luck,
- out of pocket,
- pauperized,
- pinched,
- planet-struck,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- reduced,
- sad,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of luck,
- short of money,
- shorthanded,
- squeezed,
- star-crossed,
- starved,
- starveling,
- starving,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- unblessed,
- underfed,
- undermanned,
- undernourished,
- underprivileged,
- unfed,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous,
- unprovided,
- unprovidential,
- unreplenished,
- unsupplied