Associations to the word «Destitute»

Wiktionary

DESTITUTE, adjective. Lacking something; devoid; especially lacking money; poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken.

Dictionary definition

DESTITUTE, adjective. Poor enough to need help from others.
DESTITUTE, adjective. Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning".

Wise words

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan