Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| bankrupt | unable to pay one's debts; (noun) an insolvent person; (verb) to impoverish. |
| bankruptcy | the state of being bankrupt. |
| breadline | the threshold of poverty. |
| depauperate | to impoverish. |
| destitute | forsaken, very poor; (verb, obs.) to forsake, to deprive. |
| dispauperise | to free from pauperdom. |
| dispauperize | to free from pauperdom. |
| dyvour | (Scots) a bankrupt. |
| dyvoury | (Scots) bankruptcy. |
| empoverish | (Obs.) to make poor. |
| farthingless | without a farthing. |
| illth | the contrary of wealth or wellbeing. |
| immiserise | to subject to immiseration, progressive impoverishment or degradation. |
| impecuniosity | poverty. |
| impecunious | without money; penniless. |
| impecuniously | (Adv.) IMPECUNIOUS, without money. |
| impecuniousness | the state of being impecunious. |
| impoverish | to make poor. |
| impoverisher | one who impoverishes. |
| impoverishment | the state of being impoverished. |
| indigence | poverty; the state of being needy. |
| indigency | poverty; the state of being needy. |
| indigent | needy (noun) an indigent or poor person |
| indigently | (Adv.) INDIGENT, needy. |
| insolvent | not able to pay one's debts; (noun) one who is insolvent. |
| moneyless | having no money. |
| necessitied | (Shakesp.) forced into a state of subjection or submissiveness as a result of poverty. |
| needily | (Adv.) NEEDY, poor. |
| needy | poor. |
| nonaffluent | not affluent. |
| nonpoor | a person who is not poor. |
| obolary | extremely poor. |
| pair | poor (noun) a set of two; (verb) to arrange in sets of two |
| pauper | a destitute person; (verb) to make a pauper of, reduce to poverty. |
| pauperdom | the state of being a pauper. |
| pauperess | a female pauper. |
| pauperisation | the process of pauperising. |
| pauperise | to reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperise the peasantry. |
| pauperism | the state of being a pauper. |
| pauperization | the process of pauperizing. |
| pauperize | to reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. |
| penniless | without a penny, destitute. |
| pennilessly | (Adv.) PENNILESS, destitute. |
| pennilessness | the state of being penniless. |
| penurious | poor; mean. |
| penuriously | (Adv.) PENURIOUS, poor; mean. |
| penury | destitution, poverty. |
| plackless | (Scots) destitute, not having a plack. |
| poorish | somewhat poor. |
| poorness | the state of being poor. |
| poortith | (Scots) poverty. |
| poverty | the state of being poor. |
| puir | (Scots) poor. |
| puirtith | (Scots) poverty. |
| shillingless | without a shilling. |
| skint | hard up, broke. |
| unmoneyed | without money. |
| unmonied | without money. |
| unpennied | without pennies. |
| wealthless | without wealth. |