Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

immiserated

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: im-mis-er-at-ed
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of immiserate

adj

Poor, impoverished; destitute.

Example Sentences

"When Marxists believed that socialism was inevitable, there was no need to explain why it was desirable. It was simply the end point of a predetermined sequence of historical developments. Capitalism would self-destruct, due to its inner contradictions, and the increasingly immiserated workers would have no choice but to overthrow it."
"A rash of suicides among its workers is part of the reason for Foxconn’s relocation to the still poorer and more immiserated interior of the Heavenly People’s Republic."

Inflected Forms

more immiserated (comparative) most immiserated (superlative)

Questions

What does immiserated mean?: simple past and past participle of immiserate

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