English Dictionary

poverty-ridden

adj

(of a community, place, etc.) Filled with or plagued by poverty. / (of a person) Suffering from poverty. / (of a time) During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty.

The poverty-ridden community struggles to meet their basic needs.

意味（1）

(of a community, place, etc.) Filled with or plagued by poverty.

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.

意味（2）

(of a person) 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!

意味（3）

(of a time) During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty.

Friends soon tell each other their troubles, and she found that Carry’s haunting fear was of a poverty-ridden old age.