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poverty
Synonyms and Antonyms of poverty
1
the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions
2
a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number
crunch, dearth, deficiency, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want
Synonym Discussion of poverty
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- the extreme poverty of the slum dwellers
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- the indigence of her years as a graduate student
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- a catastrophic illness that condemned them to years of penury
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- lived in a perpetual state of want
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- the widespread destitution in countries beset by famine
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