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. Lucas Chancel:

   The Covid crisis has exacerbated inequalities between the very wealthy and the rest of the population, yet, in rich countries, government intervention prevented a massive rise in poverty, this was not the case in poor countries.

2. Margaret Moon:

   Children are not born into the same potential opportunity everywhere in the country. It's a call to action for us as a nation to think about the well-being of children everywhere, if Margaret Moon look at the data, Margaret Moon can look at poverty as a huge issue in this country and in addition to poverty, educational opportunities for children and also American Indian families with children.

3. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   Open still remains a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesses little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!

4. Getty Images:

   A non-violent thief who can post $3,000 bail is no more threatening than one who can't, the money is irrelevant; being poor doesn't make a defendant inherently more dangerous. But as practiced, NY’s legal system has long operated as if poverty equals danger.

5. Edison Hayden:

   Emails are emails, southern Poverty Law Center fights tirelessly against all hate, including anti-Semitism.