without money, food and the other things necessary for life 贫困的；贫穷的；赤贫的 - the destitutenoun [plural]
people who are destitute 穷人；贫民 More Like This Plural adjectival nounsPlural adjectival nouns - destitute of something (formal)
not having something 缺乏；没有；毫无 Extra Examplesa man wholly destitute of compassion 一个完全没有同情心的人 a country almost destitute of timber 一个几乎没有木材的国家
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘deserted, abandoned, empty’): from Latin destitutus, past participle of destituere ‘forsake’, from de- ‘away from’ + statuere ‘to place’.