Destitute of a home.
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Destitute of a home.
Displacement Roget’s Thesaurus §185
N. displacement, elocation, transposition, # ejectment, exile, removal, misplacement, dislocation, fish out of water
V. displace, misplace, displant, dislodge, disestablish, exile, ablegate, set aside, remove, take away, cart away, take off, draft off, lade, unload, empty, transfer, dispel, vacate, depart
Adj. displaced, unplaced, unhoused, unharbored, unestablished, unsettled, houseless, homeless, out of place, out of a situation, in the wrong place, misplaced, out of its element, 3, existence in space
Poverty Roget’s Thesaurus §804
N. poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want, need, neediness, lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door, bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances, embarrassed circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened circumstances, slender means, narrow means, straits, hand to mouth existence, res angusta domi, low water, impecuniosity, beggary, mendicancy, mendicity, broken fortune, loss of fortune, insolvency, empty pocket, empty purse, light purse, beggarly account of empty boxes, poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper, beggar, starveling, pauvre diable, fakir|, schnorrer|, homeless person
V. be poor, want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish, go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin, not have a penny, not have a shot in one's locker, beg one's bread, tirer le diable par la queue, run into debt, render poor, impoverish, reduce, reduce to poverty, pauperize, fleece, ruin, bring to the parish
Adj. poor, indigent, poverty-stricken, badly off, poorly off, ill off, poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a job, fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless, unportioned, unmoneyed, impecunious, out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash, without a rap, not worth a rap, qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up, out at elbows, out at heels, seedy, bare-footed, beggarly, beggared, destitute, fleeced, stripped, bereft, bereaved, reduced, homeless, in want, needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched, straitened, put to one's shifts, put to one's last shifts, unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet, embarrassed, under hatches, involved, insolvent
Adv. in forma pauperis
Phr. zonam perdidit, "a penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree", a pobreza no hay verguenza, "he that is down can fall no lower", poca roba poco pensiero, "steeped . . . in poverty to the very lips", "the short and simple annals of the poor"
Seclusion. Exclusion Roget’s Thesaurus §893
N. seclusion, privacy, retirement, reclusion, recess, snugness, delitescence, rustication, rus in urbe, solitude, solitariness, isolation, loneliness, estrangement from the world, voluntary exile, aloofness, cell, hermitage, convent, sanctum sanctorum, depopulation, desertion, desolation, wilderness, howling wilderness, rotten borough, old sarum, exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription, cut, cut direct, dead cut, inhospitality, inhospitableness, dissociability, domesticity, darby and joan, recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite, anchoret, anchorite, simon stylites, troglodyte, timon of athens, santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of zimmermann, closet cynic, diogenes, outcast, pariah, castaway, pilgarlic, wastrel, foundling, wilding
V. be secluded, live secluded, keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background, keep snug, shut oneself up, deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux, retire, retire from the world, take the veil, abandon, sport one's oak*, cut, cut dead, refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge, look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon, repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate, banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round, depopulate, dispeople, unpeople
Adj. secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye, out of the world, out of the way, "the world forgetting by the world forgot", snug, domestic, stay-at-home, unsociable, unsocial, dissocial, inhospitable, cynical, inconversable|, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic, solitary, lonely, lonesome, isolated, single, estranged, unfrequented, uninhabitable, uninhabited, tenantless, abandoned, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, unfriended, kithless, friendless, homeless, lorn, forlorn, desolate, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited, unwelcome, under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast, banished
Phr. noli me tangere, "among them but not of them", "and homeless near a thousand homes i stood", far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, "makes a solitude and calls it peace", magna civitas magna solitudo, "never less alone than when alone", "o sacred solitude! divine retreat!"
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