poverty-ridden

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Filled with or plagued by poverty. place,usually
    — Fresh from the poverty-ridden hillsides of Connaught, these rich grazing-lands, comfortable houses, magnificent demesnes and castles, are unspeakably grateful to the eye and healing to the spirit.
  2. Suffering from poverty.
    — […] a young girl is sent to prison and forcibly fed with a tube through the nose for telling poverty-ridden slum-women how to keep from becoming pregnant!
  3. During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty.
    — 1915, Cecily Sidgwick (as “Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick”), Mr. Broom and His Brother, London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter 7, p. 33, Friends soon tell each other their troubles, and she found that Carry’s haunting fear was of a poverty-ridden old age.

词形变化

more poverty-ridden comparative most poverty-ridden superlative

词源

From poverty + ridden.
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