HARD UP Synonyms

• not having enough money to pay for necessities

• lacking funds

• marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences

• poor enough to need help from others

• completely wanting or lacking

• poor enough to need help from others

• destroyed financially

• poor enough to need help from others

• unable to meet or discharge financial obligations

• someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

• needy people collectively

• poor enough to need help from others

• demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree

• poor enough to need help from others

• engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity

• an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position

• hanger consisting of a loop of leather suspended from the ceiling of a bus or train; passengers hold onto it

• a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag

• whip consisting of a strip of leather used in flogging

• tie with a strap

• beat severely with a whip or rod

• sharpen with a strap

• secure (a sprained joint) with a strap

• a person who is destitute

• lacking resources (or any prospect of resources)

• not having enough money to pay for necessities

• excessively unwilling to spend

• sounding as if the nose were pinched

• very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

• not having enough money to pay for necessities

• as if squeezed uncomfortably tight

• not having enough money to pay for necessities