bankrupt

1. 1.

   financially ruined

   “a bankrupt company”

   “the company went belly-up”

   Synonymsbelly-up

   Similarinsolvent

Other forms of bankrupt

plural

bankrupts·

past tense

bankrupted·

present participle

bankrupting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bankrupt

What does bankrupt mean?

bankrupt means "someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bankrupt?

bankrupt has 2 syllables: ban-krupt. The stress falls on "ban". In IPA it is /ˈbæŋkɹəpt/.

What is another word for bankrupt?

Close synonyms include insolvent, ruin, break, smash, belly-up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bankrupt a common word?

bankrupt is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.