destitute

英 ['destɪtjuːt] 美 ['destɪtuːt]

• adj. 穷困的；赤贫的；缺乏的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. poor enough to need help from others

2. completely wanting or lacking;

   "writing barren of insight"
   "young recruits destitute of experience"
   "innocent of literary merit"
   "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. When he died, his family was left completely destitute.
   他死时家里一贫如洗。
2. The hurricane left thousands of people destitute.
   这场飓风造成的几千人失去了一切。
3. Here is an asylum for the care of mentally ill or destitute people.
   这儿是一家照顾精神病患者和赤贫人员的收容所。
4. They are destitute of common sense.
   他们缺乏常识。
5. He was destitute of human feelings.
   他毫无人的感情。

词汇搭配

• be destitute of 缺乏 ...
• the destitute 贫民们
• destitute of 无(缺乏)

近反义词

【近义词】

• penniless 身无分文的
• poor 可怜的
• down-and-out 穷困潦倒的
• bankrupt 破产的
• devoid 全无的
• deficient 不足的
• abandoned 被抛弃的
• depressed 沮丧的
• impoverished 贫困的
• needy 贫穷的
• indigent 贫穷的
• insolvent 无力偿还的
• deprived 被剥夺的
• barren 贫瘠的
• poverty-stricken 非常贫穷的
• necessitous 贫困的
• free 自由的
• innocent 清白的