Dirt poor and Poverty-stricken

Poverty-stricken and dirt poor are semantically related in poor topic. In some cases you can use "Poverty-stricken" instead an adjective phrase "Dirt poor", when it comes to topics like wanting, down and out, deprived, lacking sufficient money.

Poverty-stricken adjective - Lacking money or material possessions.

Dirt poor and poverty-stricken are semantically related in extremely poor topic. You can use "Dirt poor" instead an adjective phrase "Poverty-stricken", if it concerns topics such as very poor.