adj.: contracted, destitute, disadvantaged, impecunious, indigent, needy, penniless, penurious, Poor, starveling, underprivileged, necessitous, very poor, having very little money with which to buy one's basic needs
Thesaurus
Pinch of, destitute, impoverished, crummy, Poor and lowly of, socially or economically deprived, base, needy, needy, straitened