poverty-struck
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Poverty-stricken; very poor.
Example Sentences
- "I warrant—Such Poverty-ſtruck Devils as you ſhan't ſtay in my Houſe—you ſhall go to Quod, I can tell you that—"
- "A more curious figure cannot be conceived than I made; for, my poverty-struck and half-starved appearance was so contrasted with my active pace and flowing spirits, that I bore more the stamp of a lunatic than any thing else."
- "[…] the poverty-struck appearance of these appendages is disgraceful to the structure, and even the excuse of utility is wanted to apologise for their excessive meanness."
- "Why hadn't she told me? Why had she wanted me to think her only a poverty-struck little liar? Well, maybe she was a little liar, but a liar with money was something else again. And I did like that smile."
Inflected Forms
more poverty-struck (comparative)
most poverty-struck (superlative)