Definitions for poverty-stricken

poverty-stricken pov·er·ty-strick·en

Spelling: [pov-er-tee-strik-uh n]
IPA: /ˈpɒv ər tiˌstrɪk ən/

Poverty-Stricken is a 16 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 2630 anagrams from letters in poverty-stricken (-ceeiknoprrsttvy).

Definitions for poverty-stricken

adjective

  1. suffering from poverty; extremely poor:

Origin of poverty-stricken

First recorded in 1795-1805

Examples for poverty-stricken

How mean, meagre, narrow, and poverty-stricken must be their lives!

Hiram Powers was born into a large and poverty-stricken family.

Then he glanced around at the bare and poverty-stricken room.

But he was a revolutionist, an often shabby, poverty-stricken genius with a taste for the bottle.

The next night Monty dutifully fills the opera house with poverty-stricken peasants.

We are a poverty-stricken lot, and no one to come over into Macedonia to help us.

Contrary to the image of the typical heroin user propagated by the media, those using it are not all poverty-stricken delinquents.

Raised in the poverty-stricken Foster neighborhood in Portland, Chisholm started street preaching at age 19.

I am without doubt the most poverty-stricken of your acquaintances.

The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro.

Word Value for poverty-stricken
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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