SKINT Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

skint

adjective

ˈskint

Definition of skint

chiefly British

as in impoverished

lacking money or material possessions an area of London where skint punk rockers would hang out

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Adjective

About one-fifth of Florida’s impoverished elderly people live in the county, state records show.

— Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Behind the scenes, this gritty, impoverished circus company wrestles with violence, illness and animal cruelty.

— Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of impoverished

Adjective

The petition argues Mays’ language during the trial revealed something deeper than a poor defense strategy — a worldview that dehumanized the man he was supposed to defend.

— Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
There remains work to be done, as evidenced by their poor showing in last Thursday’s 41-17 preseason loss to the San Francisco 49ers.

— Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of poor

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While figuring out the legal bureaucracies surrounding Sam’s money, the working-class siblings complain about their physical proximity to their broke friends.

— Paula Mejía, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
The Democratic National Committee is both broke and broken, a New York Times bombshell last weekend detailed.

— Philip Elliott, Time, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of broke

Adjective

In the summer of 1927 three young men of means ran into a neighbor from back home in Winnetka, Illinois, on the streets of Paris, who was stranded with a penniless delegation of labor leaders and educators intended for Moscow.

— Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026
Irene has blackmailed the Bohemian royal family, Carrie is a thief who has stolen rare stamps from a penniless woman unaware of their value, and Fanny disguises as a man to gain access to a bank vault.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026

Definition of penniless

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Topline Google agreed to pay $10 million for an enormous trove of business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines—raising questions about what happens to privacy after a company goes belly up and AI swoops in.

— Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Most bankrupt airlines are purchased whole, including their data, by another airline which folds it into those operations.

— Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of bankrupt

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