Search Result for "insolvent":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts;
[syn: bankrupt, insolvent]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. unable to meet or discharge financial obligations;
- Example: "an insolvent person"
- Example: "an insolvent estate"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Insolvent \In*sol"vent\, a. [Pref. in- not + solvent: cf. OF. insolvent.] (Law) (a) Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor. (b) Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner; as, an insolvent estate. (c) Relating to persons unable to pay their debts. [1913 Webster] Insolvent law, or Act of insolvency, a law affording relief, -- subject to various modifications in different States, -- to insolvent debtors, upon their delivering up their property for the benefit of their creditors; bankruptcy law. See Bankrupt law, under Bankrupt, a. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Insolvent \In*sol"vent\, n. (Law) One who is insolvent; as insolvent debtor; -- in England, before 1861, especially applied to persons not traders. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "insolvent": bankrupt, broke, broken, busted, destitute, down-and-out, failed, failure, fortuneless, homeless, impoverished, in Queer Street, in receivership, in the gutter, in the red, indebted, insolvent debtor, lame duck, landless, moneyless, on the rocks, out of funds, penniless, propertyless, ruined, unsound, wiped out, without a sou
