Vocabulary
Destitute
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
extremely poor and lacking the means to provide for oneself.
Urdu meaning
محتاج، مفلس، بے سہارا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- He started with only `a few coppers in his pocket` but left `millions behind, out of which, more than a few million had already been spent towards the welfare of thousands of orphans, widows and the destitute.
- Still, waste-picking is mentioned in the Punjab Destitute and Neglected Children Act, 2004, (amended in2017),underSection 36B, which prohibits inciting children toengage in rag-picking.
- Child beggars are not the same as destitute minors and orphans.
- But the fact that our destitute are unsafe due to administrative neglect should be a matter of national shame.
- But the fact that our destitute are unsafe due to administrative neglect should be a matter of national shame.
Synonyms
penniless, impoverished, poverty-stricken, poor, impecunious, indigent, down and out.
Curator example
“the charity cares for destitute children”.
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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