Antonyms for down and out
Grammar : Adj, noun |
Spell : doun-uh nd-out, -uh n |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdaʊn əndˈaʊt, -ən |
- above
- adequate
- affluent
- blessed
- bright
- bulging
- cheerful
- comforted
- consolable
- convex
- decent
- elated
- elevated
- encouraged
- encouraging
- excellent
- fertile
- fixed
- flourishing
- fortunate
- full
- gay
- glad
- good
- great
- happy
- healthy
- heartened
- high
- honest
- honorable
- honored
- hopeful
- in favor
- increased
- inhabiting
- joyful
- joyous
- lucky
- luxurious
- moral
- nice
- optimistic
- permanent
- pleased
- populated
- potent
- privileged
- prominent
- prosperous
- pushed up
- raised
- respectable
- restored
- rich
- satisfied
- secure
- settled
- solvent
- strong
- sufficient
- sunny
- superior
- tall
- timely
- tiptoeing
- unburdened
- unmoving
- upright
- wealthy
- well
- well-to-do
- worthwhile
- worthy
Definition of down and out
Origin :- late Old English shortened form of Old English ofdune "downwards," from dune "from the hill," dative of dun "hill" (see down (n.2)). A sense development peculiar to English.
- Used as a preposition since c.1500. Sense of "depressed mentally" is attested from c.1600. Slang sense of "aware, wide awake" is attested from 1812. Computer crash sense is from 1965. As a preposition from late 14c.; as an adjective from 1560s. Down-and-out is from 1889, American English, from situation of a beaten prizefighter. Down home (adj.) is 1931, American English; down the hatch as a toast is from 1931; down to the wire is 1901, from horse-racing. Down time is from 1952. Down under "Australia and New Zealand" attested from 1886; Down East "Maine" is from 1825.
- As in indigent : adj poor
- As in kaput : adj ruined, wrecked
- As in low : adj depressed
- As in melancholy : adj depressed, sad
- As in needy : adj deprived, impoverished
- As in poor : adj lacking sufficient money
- As in poverty-stricken : adj very poor
- As in underprivileged : adj poor
- As in unhappy : adj sad
- As in vagabond : adj unsettled; vagrant
- As in wretched : adj terrible, very bad
- As in beggarly : adj poor
- As in disgraced : adj discredited
- As in heavy-hearted : adj depressed
- As in melancholic : adj depressed
- As in necessitous : adj poor
- As in tristful : adj depressed
- As in depressed : adj discouraged
- As in down-and-out : adj destitute
- As in forlorn : adj hopeless, inconsolable
- As in homeless : adj displaced
- As in pauper : noun person who is poor
- As in street person : noun homeless person
- As in beggar : noun person in financial trouble
- As in tramp : noun person who is poor, desperate
- As in down-and-outer : noun poor person
- As in have-not : noun pauper
- As in moocher : noun beggar
Synonyms for down and out
- abandoned
- abject
- afflicted
- aimless
- all washed up
- alms person
- almsman
- almsperson
- almswoman
- alone
- at
- bad
- bad off
- badly off
- bag lady
- bag person
- banished
- bankrupt
- base
- beaten
- beggar
- beggared
- beggarly
- behind eight ball
- belly-up
- bereft
- bleak
- bleeding
- blue
- broke
- broken
- bum
- bummed
- bummed out
- burned out
- busted
- cadger
- calamitous
- cast-down
- cheap
- cheerless
- comfortless
- contemptible
- cooked
- crestfallen
- crummy
- cynical
- dead
- dead broke
- defeated
- defenseless
- defrocked
- degraded
- dejected
- demoted
- dependent
- deplorable
- deported
- depressed
- deprived
- derelict
- deserted
- desolate
- despairing
- desperate
- despicable
- despondent
- destitute
- destroyed
- dirt poor
- disadvantaged
- discharged
- disconsolate
- disheartened
- dishonored
- disinherited
- dismal
- dispirited
- displaced
- displaced person
- dispossessed
- distressed
- doleful
- dolorous
- done for
- down
- down and out
- down at heel
- down for the count
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- down the drain
- down the tubes
- down to last cent
- down-and-out
- down-and-outer
- downbeat
- downcast
- downhearted
- downtrodden
- dragged
- dragging
- dreary
- drifter
- drifting
- droopy
- dull
- dysphoric
- empty-handed
- errant
- estranged
- exiled
- fancy-free
- faulty
- fe
- fed up
- finished
- flat
- flat broke
- flimsy
- floater
- floored
- fly-by-night
- footloose
- forgotten
- forlorn
- forsaken
- fortuneless
- friendless
- fruitless
- funereal
- futile
- gloomy
- glum
- godforsaken
- grim
- guttersnipe
- had it
- handicapped
- hapless
- hard up
- have-not
- heavy-hearted
- heavyhearted
- helpless
- hitchhiker
- hobo
- homeless
- homeless person
- hopeless
- houseless
- humiliated
- hurting
- idle
- ill-fated
- ill-starred
- impecunious
- impencunious
- impoverished
- in a blue funk
- in blue funk
- in dire circumstances
- in dire straits
- in disgrace
- in great need; financially poor
- in need
- in pain
- in the dumps
- in the gutter
- in the pits
- in the poorhouse
- in the red
- in the toilet
- in want
- inadequate
- indigent
- inferior
- insolvent
- itinerant
- itinerate
- journeying
- joyless
- lachrymose
- lazarus
- let down
- let-down
- loafer
- lonely
- lonesome
- long-faced
- lost
- low
- low-down
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- meager
- mean
- melancholic
- melancholy
- mendicant
- migratory
- mirthless
- miserable
- miserably poor
- mocked
- moneyless
- moody
- moony
- morose
- mournful
- moving
- necessitous
- needful
- needy
- nomadic
- nonfunctioning
- on a downer
- on one's uppers
- on the skids
- oppressed
- oppressive
- out of business
- out of circulation
- out of funds
- outcast
- paltry
- panhandler
- pathetic
- pauper
- pauperized
- penniless
- pensive
- penurious
- perambulant
- perambulatory
- peripatetic
- pessimistic
- pinched
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poor
- poor person
- poverty-stricken
- poverty-stricken person
- prodigal
- put away
- rambling
- reduced
- refugee
- ripped
- roaming
- rootless
- roving
- ruined
- sad
- saddened
- saddening
- sauntering
- scanty
- shabby
- shamed
- shameful
- shifting
- shiftless
- shopping-bag lady
- shopping-bag person
- short
- singing the blues
- sob story
- solitary
- somber
- sordid
- sorrowful
- sorry
- spiritless
- stone broke
- straggling
- stranded
- strapped
- stray
- street person
- strolling
- suffering
- sunk
- suppliant
- supplicant
- taken down
- tarred and feathered
- teary
- torn up
- totaled
- tragic
- tramp
- transient
- travelling
- tristful
- trite
- troubled
- truly needy
- uncared-for
- underprivileged
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- unhoused
- unlucky
- unmoneyed
- unprosperous
- unsettled
- unwelcome
- vagabond
- vagrant
- vain
- vile
- wanderer
- wandering
- wanting
- ward of state
- washed up
- wayfaring
- wayward
- weak
- weeping
- weighed down
- wet blanket
- wino
- wiped out
- wistful
- without a roof
- woebegone
- woeful
- worthless
- wretched
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