poverty
noun
[ ˈpɒvəti ]
• the state of being extremely poor.
• "thousands of families are living in abject poverty"
Similar:
penury,
destitution,
indigence,
pennilessness,
privation,
deprivation,
impoverishment,
neediness,
need,
want,
hardship,
impecuniousness,
impecuniosity,
hand-to-mouth existence,
beggary,
pauperism,
straitened circumstances,
bankruptcy,
insolvency,
primary poverty,
pauperdom,
• the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount.
• "the poverty of her imagination"
Similar:
scarcity,
deficiency,
dearth,
shortage,
paucity,
insufficiency,
inadequacy,
absence,
lack,
want,
deficit,
meagreness,
limitedness,
restrictedness,
sparseness,
sparsity,
exiguity,
inferiority,
mediocrity,
poorness,
barrenness,
aridity,
sterility,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French poverte, from Latin paupertas, from pauper ‘poor’.
