adjective
- lacking in resources, impoverished, or reduced in number or variety
Usage: formal; often used in scientific contexts
Examples
- The depauperate soil could not support healthy plant growth.
- After years of overfishing, the lake had a depauperate fish population.
- The island’s depauperate ecosystem contained only a few hardy species.
- Economic sanctions left the country in a depauperate state.
- The depauperate forest showed signs of environmental stress.
- Scientists studied the depauperate coral reef to understand the damage.