impoverished

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃt/

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• Hyphenation: im‧pov‧er‧ished

impoverished (comparative more impoverished, superlative most impoverished)

1. Reduced to poverty.
2. Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.

   English has an impoverished inflectional system.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 488:

     [I]t was out of print for 28 years, before an edition (now rare) was published in 1960, impoverished by having all citations removed.

• See also Thesaurus:impoverished

• impoverishedly
• impoverishedness

impoverished

1. simple past and past participle of impoverish