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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky