poverty-ridden vs wealthless

poverty-ridden

adj
  • Suffering from poverty. 

  • During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty. 

  • Filled with or plagued by poverty. 

wealthless

adj
  • Having little or no wealth; poor. 

How often have the words poverty-ridden and wealthless occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )