Synonyms for poverty
ˈpɒv ər tipover·ty

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1. poverty

   Poverty denotes strictly lack of property or adequate means of support, but in common use is a relative term denoting any condition below that of easy, comfortable living; privation denotes a condition of painful lack of what is useful or desirable, tho not to the extent of absolute distress; indigence is lack of ordinary means of subsistence; destitution is lack of the comforts, and in part even of the necessaries of life; penury is especially cramping poverty, possibly not so sharp as destitution, but continuous, while that may be temporary; pauperism is such destitution as throws one upon organized public charity for support; beggary and mendicancy denote poverty that appeals for indiscriminate private charity.

   Synonyms:
   beggary, destitution, distress, indigence, mendicancy, need, pauperism, penury, privation, want

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1. poverty

   Synonyms:
   want, need, indigence, destitution

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1. poverty, poorness, impoverishmentnoun

   the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

   Synonyms:
   exiguity, leanness, impoverishment, pauperization, poorness, meagreness, meagerness, scantiness, pauperisation, scantness

   Antonyms:
   wealthiness, wealth

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1. povertynoun

   Synonyms:
   indigence, penury, want, destitution, need, necessity, privation, distress, straitened circumstances

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1. povertynoun

   Synonyms:
   penury, indigence, need, destitution, privation, neediness, impecuniosity, pauperism, deficiency, paucity, infecundity, dearth, lack, meagerness, sterility, barrenness

   Associated words:
   impoverish, impoverishment

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1. List of paraphrases for "poverty":

   poor, misery, pauvreté, pobreza, destitution, impoverishment, impoverished, indigent, deprivation, indigence, poorest, anti-poverty

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1. Sara Goldrick-Rab:

   Poverty is associated with many health consequences – including lack of sleep – and African Americans in the U.S. are dealing with a greater depth of poverty than other racial groups.

2. President Ramaphosa:

   The impact of apartheid on black families was devastating. In my own family it happened twice, where land was taken, we were moved from where my parents had grown up owning land, working the land, they were moved and dropped into an arid place with no compensation whatsoever, as it is now, the poverty that we have in South Africa, in part, has been given rise to by people not having assets.

3. Mahbouba Seraj:

   This is just the beginning of it, this is really the tip of the iceberg, it will keep on happening, with hunger, with winter, with poverty, with all of this ignorance.

4. Ray Kelly:

   Many of the people who come to us suffer from serious illness, poverty and lack of access to regular external health care in the community.

5. R. D. Hitchcock:

   Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.