Synonyms:
- badly off,
- broke,
- depressed,
- destitute,
- dire,
- distressed,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- feeling the pinch,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- hapless,
- hard up,
- ill off,
- ill-starred,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- in Queer Street,
- in adverse circumstances,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- inauspicious,
- indigent,
- land-poor,
- low,
- luckless,
- narrow,
- needy,
- ominous,
- on the edge,
- out of luck,
- out of pocket,
- pinched,
- planet-struck,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- reduced,
- sad,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of luck,
- short of money,
- squeezed,
- star-crossed,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unmoneyed,
- unprovidential