noun. Extreme want of resources or the means of subsistence; complete poverty.

noun. A deprivation or lack; a deficiency.

noun. Deprivation; absence of anything desired.

noun. Deprivation of office; dismissal; discharge. See destitute, v., 2.

noun. Deprivation or absence of means; indigence; poverty; want.

noun. Synonyms Indigence, Penury, etc. (see poverty); privation, distress.

noun. The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want.

noun. The action of deserting or abandoning.

noun. Discharge from office; dismissal.

noun. The condition of lacking something.

noun. An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support.

noun. a state without friends or money or prospects

"Those countries that still wallow in destitution and underdevelopment do so not because of western imperialism, racism or oppression but because of policies they have largely chosen for themselves by socialist planning or had forced upon them by civil war and revolution."

destitute  

impoverishment  poorness  poverty  

anarchy  banishment  bankruptcy  beggary  debasement  

absence  absence  adversity  bare cupboard  bare subsistence