The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NEED , but the solution may also be PENURY which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in New York Times).
Destitution crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| NEED | 52 % | 4 |
| WANT | 19 % | 4 |
| PENURY | 10 % | 6 |
| POVERTY | 10 % | 7 |
| ABJECTPOVERTY | 5 % | 13 |
| RAGS | 5 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Destitution
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- deprivation
- privation
- impoverishment
- dispossession
- dismissal
- poor
- poverty
- indigence
- penury
- scarcity
- shortage
- removal
Crossword Answer definitions
NEED noun- A requirement for something; something needed.
- Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
- To have an absolute requirement for.
- To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
- (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
- To be required; to be necessary.
- To be necessary (to someone).
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result NEED
- Burden
- Poverty-stricken state
- Call for
- Can't live without
- Exigency
- Require
- Requirement
- Requisite
- Scholarship factor
- Shortfall
More clues leading to the result WANT
- Fancy
- Thirst for
- Word on an Uncle Sam poster
- Entry on a wish list
- Have a hankering
- Have one's heart set on
- Hanker for
- Verb in a letter to Santa
- Needy condition
- Be deficient in
More clues leading to the result PENURY
- Indigence
- Extreme want
- Dearth
- Severe frugality
- Extreme poverty
- Severe circumstances
- To which Père Goriot is reduced.
- Privation.
- Status in "for poorer" category.
- Problem of have-nots.
More clues leading to the result POVERTY
- Object of a Lyndon Johnson "war"
- LBJ's War on ___
- Sad state
- Destitution
- Indigence
- "The parent of revolution and crime": Aristotle
- Wolf at the door.
- Want.
- National concern
- Meagerness