Hard Up

Definition: Hard Up

Hard Up

Adjective

1. Not having enough money to pay for necessities.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Hard Up

Difficulty

Reduced to straits; hard pressed, sorely pressed; run hard; pinched, put to it, straitened; hard up, hard put to it, hard set; put to one's shifts; puzzled, at a loss; (uncertain); at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill; graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground; stuck fast, set fast; up a tree, at bay, aux abois, driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall; au bout de son Latin; out of one's depth; thrown out.

Poverty

Adjective: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, unmoneyed; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap;(money); qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared; destitute; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced; homeless.

Crosswords: Hard Up

That God is hard up.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hard up": be hard up ♦ he was hard up. Additional references.

Albanian

me xhepin bosh, i ngushtë (acute, bigheaded, close, close-grained, incapacious, intimate, narrow, narrow minded, near, one track, one-ideaed, particularistic, petty, poky, provincial, small, small minded, Strait, tight). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفلس (bankrupt, broke, bust, busty, down at heel, impecunious, insolvent, kaput, penniless, punk, ruined, unowned), ‏محروم جدا, ‏عكاس (counter), ‏عوز شديد, ‏إباحية (permissiveness, porn, pornography). (various references)

Bulgarian 

затруднен (catching, catchy, embarrassed, labored, laboured, snookered, straitened, troubled). (various references)

Czech

v penìžní tísní. (various references)

Finnish

olla rahapulassa (be hard up, be pressed for money, be short of money), olla ahtaalla (be hard pressed be hard up, be in straits). (various references)

French

fauché (hard). (various references)

German

es geht ihm schlecht (he's badly off, he's hard up). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"חוק (narrow, scarce, strained, tight). (various references)

Hungarian

le van égve (down and out, to be broke, to be broke to the world, to be hard pushed, to be hard up for money, to be on a shoestring, to be on the road, to be skint, to be stony broke). (various references)

Italian

bisognoso di. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

乏しい (destitute, limited, meagre, poor, scanty, scarce). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とぼしい (destitute, limited, meagre, poor, scanty, scarce), ともしい (destitute, limited, meagre, poor, scanty, scarce). (various references)

Pig Latin

ardhay upay

Romanian

sãrac (barren, beggarly, destitute, empty, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, lean, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, needful, needy, pauper, peeled, penniless, penurious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, poor man, poverty stricken, scanty, small, sterile, stingy, void), lefter (broke, moneyless, penniless). (various references)

Russian 

нуждающийся (impecunious, in need, indigent, necessitous, needy, penniless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

napaljen. (various references)

Spanish

pelado (bald, bare, broke, hairless, shelling, skint), estar mal de dinero. (various references)

Swedish

vara i knipa (be hard up). (various references)

Turkish

zararına (at a loss, disadvantageous), muhtaç (beggarly, dependent, destitute, have a weak chest, in need, indigent, necessitous, needy, straitened, straitened for), eli dar. (various references)

Misspellings

"Hard Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hardup. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: purdah.

-1 letter: prahu, purda.

-2 letters: dura, hard, harp, pard, prau.

-3 letters: dah, dap, duh, dup, had, hap, hup, pad, pah, par, pud, pur, rad, rah, rap, urd.

-4 letters: ad, ah, ar, ha, pa, uh, up.

+1 letter: purdahs, uphoard.

+2 letters: uphoards.

+3 letters: harumphed, purchased, uphoarded, upreached.

+4 letters: harrumphed, parachuted, punchboard, unhampered, upgathered, uphoarding.

+5 letters: autographed, outpreached, punchboards, repurchased, superharden, superheated, thunderclap.