poverty | Definition of poverty

Synonyms and Antonyms of poverty

1 the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions

he dreamed of finding a good job and working his way out of poverty and debt

Synonyms of poverty

beggary, destituteness, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, penuriousness, penury, poorness, want

Words Related to poverty

gutter, misery, woe, wretchedness

emergency, rainy day

austerity, deprivation, privation

bankruptcy, insolvency

belt-tightening, pinching, straitening

Near Antonyms of poverty

luxury, prosperity

Antonyms of poverty

affluence, opulence, richness, wealth, wealthiness

2 a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number

a poverty of information about the new policies

Synonyms of poverty

crunch, dearth, deficiency, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want

Words Related to poverty

absence, omission

meagerness, poorness, skimpiness

necessity, need, privation

Near Antonyms of poverty

bountifulness, copiousness

excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus

Antonyms of poverty

abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth