Poverty synonyms
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A deprivation or lack; a deficiency.
The state or quality of being penniless.
The state of being impoverished.
The condition of being insufficiently developed
The state of being starved
The condition or quality of lacking something usual or necessary:
Penury is defined as extreme poverty or lacking basic necessities.
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Inability or failure of an organ or tissue to perform its normal function
An acute and general shortage of food, or a period of this
Any scarcity or lack
Any of various small sandpipers, as the little stint (Calidris minuta)
The property of being barren; the property of not supporting life.
Beggarly appearance.
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reduced-circumstances
(Euphemistic) Poverty.
The status of being unable to pay one’s debts when due.
A thing hard to bear; specific cause of discomfort or suffering, as poverty, pain, etc.
A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health:
The act of drawing out in its entirety, or using up, money or of a nonrenewable resource such as oil.
The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required or expected amount; a shortage:
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The condition of owing:
hand-to-mouth existence
Want of earthly goods
tough going
Want of earthly goods
A deficiency in amount; an insufficiency.
Scarcity is defined as a state of something being in short supply.
The state or condition of being not complete.
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prosperity (antonym)
The condition of being prosperous.
Scarcity; dearth; insufficiency
The definition of a shortcoming is a failing or something that is considered to be a flaw.
A deficient amount; a shortfall.
hiv-aids (related)
broken fortune
Want of earthly goods
The condition of being indigent
Necessity; obligation:
The state of being needy
The act or state of being a mendicant
A strong desire or craving:
(Idiomatic) A difficult or embarrassing situation.
hard spot
Want of earthly goods
The definition of a bite is the act of using your teeth to dig into something, a wound inflicted by someone's teeth digging into something, a quick snack, or an amount cut off.
A period of financial difficulty characterized by tight money and unavailability of credit.
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A pressing or urgent situation:
A minor fault.
The definition of a defect is an imperfection or lacking that causes the person or thing with the defect to fall short of perfection.
wealth (antonym)
Much money or property; great amount of worldly possessions; riches
comfort (antonym)
A cause of relief or satisfaction.
lack (related)
The thing that is lacking or needed
A difficult position
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The state of being impecunious; impecuniousness
A shortage of required material.
infecundity
Lack of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.
(Uncountable) The quality of being scanty.
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richness (antonym)
(Ecology) The number of types in a community.
luxury (antonym)
Something that is desirable but expensive or hard to obtain or do:
affluence (antonym)
A plentiful supply of material goods; wealth.
The quality of being penurious.
The property of being scarce.
rich (related)
A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
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excess (related)
An amount or quantity greater than is necessary, desirable, usable, etc.; too much; superfluity
inequality (related)
poverty-x94 (related)
unemployment (related)
malnutrition (related)
illiteracy (related)
grinding-poverty (related)
homelessness (related)
marginalisation (related)
The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation.
The property of being impecunious.
financial distress
Want of earthly goods
wolf at the door
Want of earthly goods
A failure to attain a specified amount or level; a shortage.
(US) The state of being meager.
Synonym Study
- Penury suggests such severe poverty as to cause misery or a loss of self-respect
- Indigence , a somewhat euphemistic term, implies a lack of comforts that one formerly enjoyed
- Destitution and want imply such great poverty that the means for mere subsistence, such as food and shelter, are lacking
- Poverty , the broadest of these terms, implies a lack of the resources for reasonably comfortable living
Find another word for poverty. In this page you can discover 85 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for poverty, like: destitution, pennilessness, impoverishment, underdevelopment, starvation, want, penury, insufficiency, famine, dearth and exiguity.