hard up

Speech parts

1. hard up - Adjective

2. hard up - Phrase

3. hard up - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

not having enough money to pay for necessities

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Alternative names

hard-up

Synonyms

poor broke deprived bankrupt impoverished needy destitute penniless insolvent indigent pinched needful skint penurious impecunious
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Antonyms

rich wealthy loaded prosperous flush opulent
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Examples

After all it cost me nothing and at the time I was particularly hard up and it gave me pleasure to spend his fortune for him. Source: Internet

Holst and his wife decided, as Imogen later put it, that "as they were always hard up the only thing to do was to spend it all at once on a holiday in Germany". Source: Internet

The five-year-old was jagged back to the rear at Coffs Harbour from barrier 1 last start before making a run hard up on the fence to just miss. Source: Internet

I walked fast and hard up the sidewalk, wondering if all the terrible things I knew to be true somehow didn’t exist anymore — if the passage of time had voided them out entirely. Source: Internet

How dare he or she think I’m so hard up for companionship that I’d share my bon mots with just anyone. Source: Internet

Were it not for being irreverent, we would suggest that He was hard up for something to do when He made any of those pests you call his handiwork." Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

hard up

Close letter words and terms

hard tussock hard tussock grass hard unglazed pottery hard war hard water hard way