impoverished

== English == === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃt/ Hyphenation: im‧pov‧er‧ished === Adjective === impoverished (comparative more impoverished, superlative most impoverished) Reduced to poverty. Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted. ==== Synonyms ==== See also Thesaurus:impoverished ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== (having undergone loss of features): defective === Verb === impoverished simple past and past participle of impoverish