Synonyms for destitutes
- supplicant
- bankrupt
- beggar
- bum
- dependent
- down-and-out
- have-not
- insolvent
- lazarus
- mendicant
- almsperson
- destitute
- homeless person
- in the gutter
- indigent
- poor person
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WORD ORIGIN
late 14c., "abandoned, forsaken," from Latin destitutus "abandoned," past participle of destituere "forsake," from de- "away" + statuere "put, place," causative of stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Originally literal; sense of "lacking resources, impoverished" is 1530s.