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Definitions for Poverty

[1] the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor.
[2] deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.: poverty of the soil.
[3] scantiness; insufficiency: Their efforts to stamp out disease were hampered by a poverty of medical supplies.
[4] the condition of being without adequate food, money, etc
[5] scarcity or dearth a poverty of wit
[6] a lack of elements conducive to fertility in land or soil

Words related to Poverty

bankruptcy, debt, hardship, lack, famine, difficulty, scarcity, shortage, starvation, deficit, distress, privation, dearth, vacancy, deficiency, pass, meagerness, emptiness, inadequacy, indigence

Words nearby Poverty

pout, pouter, poutine, pouty, pov, poverty, poverty level, poverty line, poverty trap, poverty-stricken, povidone-iodine

Origin of Poverty

1125–75; Middle English poverte < Old French < Latin paupertāt- (stem of paupertās ) small means, moderate circumstances. See pauper, -ty2

Word origin for Poverty

C12: from Old French poverté, from Latin paupertās restricted means, from pauper poor

Synonyms for Poverty

bankruptcy, debt, deficit, difficulty, famine, hardship, lack, scarcity, shortage, starvation, underdevelopment, abjection, aridity, barrenness, beggary, dearth, deficiency, depletion, destitution, distress, emptiness, exiguity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, meagerness, necessity, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, straits, vacancy, necessitousness