Synonyms for Poverty:

• n.

  •
  • deprivation,
  • defect,
  • exigency,
  • scarcity,
  • subsistence level,
  • the poorhouse,
  • shortness,
  • failing.
  •
  • rich,
  • penuriousness.
  •
  • need.
  •adversity (noun)
  • woe,
  • bad luck,
  • hard luck,
  • burden,
  • ordeal,
  • catastrophe,
  • misfortune,
  • agony,
  • blight,
  • curse,
  • casualty,
  • peril,
  • hardship,
  • grief,
  • calamity,
  • infliction,
  • rainy day,
  • tribulation,
  • contretemps,
  • tragedy,
  • trouble,
  • trial,
  • dolor,
  • bane,
  • misadventure,
  • affliction,
  • torment,
  • mishap,
  • difficulty,
  • disaster,
  • adversity.
  •dearth (noun)
  • un commonnesses,
  • exiguousnesses,
  • de fault,
  • de-fault,
  • rarenesses,
  • de-faults,
  • sparsities,
  • de faults,
  • slim picking,
  • in frequencies,
  • un-commonnesses,
  • uncommonnesses,
  • in-frequencies,
  • in-frequency,
  • un-commonness,
  • in frequency,
  • un commonness.
  •distress (noun)
  • holy messes,
  • dis-tresses,
  • mis fortune,
  • mis fortunes,
  • unholy messes,
  • can worms,
  • rotten lucks,
  • dis tresses,
  • tough breaks,
  • dis-tress,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • tough lucks,
  • dis tress,
  • ticklish spots.
  •embarrassment (noun)
  • dis composure,
  • mis-takes,
  • egg face,
  • dis-composures,
  • in discretions,
  • un-ease,
  • in-discretion,
  • un easiness,
  • in discretion,
  • un-easinesses,
  • dis-composure,
  • un eases,
  • awkward situations,
  • self-consciousnesses,
  • un ease,
  • selfconsciousness,
  • disconcertions,
  • mis takes,
  • un-eases,
  • mis-take,
  • un-easiness,
  • dis composures,
  • in-discretions,
  • self consciousnesses,
  • self consciousness,
  • selfconsciousnesses,
  • mis take.
  •impoverishment (noun)
  • impoverishment.
  •inadequacy (noun)
  • in-adequateness,
  • in adequateness,
  • in efficacies,
  • in competence,
  • in-effectivenesses,
  • in-efficiency,
  • faultinesses,
  • incompletenesses,
  • in-competencies,
  • in-efficacies,
  • un suitableness,
  • in-completenesses,
  • in completenesses,
  • skimpinesses,
  • in adequacies,
  • in-effectualness,
  • defectivenesses,
  • in aptnesses,
  • in-adequacy,
  • in efficiency,
  • in-sufficiency,
  • in-competency,
  • in competency,
  • in-effectiveness,
  • in-sufficiencies,
  • un fitness,
  • inadequatenesses,
  • in-efficiencies,
  • in effectualnesses,
  • in-adequatenesses,
  • un suitablenesses,
  • in capacities,
  • in efficiencies,
  • in-aptness,
  • in competencies,
  • in sufficiency,
  • in-effectualnesses,
  • un-suitablenesses,
  • in effectivenesses,
  • in adequatenesses,
  • in effectiveness,
  • in competences,
  • in-competences,
  • in-capacity,
  • un fitnesses,
  • in-adequacies,
  • in efficacy,
  • in aptness,
  • in completeness,
  • in-completeness,
  • in-capacities,
  • un-fitness,
  • un-suitableness,
  • in effectualness,
  • in-competence,
  • in-aptnesses,
  • un-fitnesses,
  • in-efficacy,
  • inaptnesses,
  • in sufficiencies,
  • in capacity,
  • in adequacy.
  •insufficiency (noun)
  • pittance,
  • niggardliness,
  • deficiency,
  • scarceness,
  • meagerness,
  • shortfall,
  • Flyspeck,
  • stinginess,
  • speck,
  • miserliness.
  •lack (noun)
  • shrinking,
  • retrenchments,
  • exiguity,
  • Insufficience,
  • retrenchment,
  • slightness.
  •misery (noun)
  • sordidnesses.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • paucity,
  • sparseness,
  • hard time,
  • dearth,
  • faux pas,
  • pauperism,
  • disconcertion,
  • incompetency,
  • slenderness,
  • defalcation,
  • famine,
  • destitution,
  • rotten luck,
  • timidity,
  • miss,
  • tough luck,
  • misery,
  • scantiness,
  • slim pickings,
  • unsuitableness,
  • shyness,
  • infrequency,
  • inaptness,
  • privation,
  • inefficacy,
  • defectiveness,
  • egg on face,
  • poorness,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • uncommonness,
  • inadequateness,
  • distress,
  • shortage,
  • sordidness,
  • ticklish spot,
  • faultiness,
  • penury,
  • want,
  • inhibition,
  • skimpiness,
  • self-consciousness,
  • hard times,
  • vicissitude,
  • rareness,
  • exiguousness,
  • unholy mess,
  • incompleteness,
  • inefficiencies,
  • defalcations,
  • sparsity,
  • lack,
  • holy mess,
  • tough break,
  • embarrassment,
  • awkward situation,
  • inadequacy,
  • fewness.
  •paucity (noun)
  • slendernesses,
  • sparsenesses,
  • fewnesses.
  •poverty (noun)
  • insolvency,
  • insufficiency,
  • asceticism,
  • poorhouse,
  • mendicancy,
  • homelessness,
  • pennilessness,
  • indigence,
  • tenuity,
  • Beggarliness,
  • bankruptcy.
  •privation (noun)
  • dis advantages,
  • dis-advantages,
  • dis advantage,
  • dis-advantage.
  •shortage (noun)
  • scantness,
  • tightness,
  • leanness.
  •ugliness (noun)
  • squalor.
  •want (noun)
  • pauperisms.
  •want; extreme need, often financial (noun)
  • emptiness,
  • beggary,
  • reduction,
  • starvation,
  • abjection,
  • impecuniousness,
  • debt,
  • aridity,
  • vacancy,
  • pinch,
  • Necessitousness,
  • depletion,
  • barrenness,
  • pass,
  • underdevelopment,
  • straits.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • state.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • gutter,
  • underage,
  • austerity,
  • subsistence,
  • deficit,
  • shortcoming.
  •
  • necessity,
  • dog.
  •misery
  • wretchedness.

Paraphrases for Poverty:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    anti-poverty.
  • Proper noun, singular
    anti-poverty.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    anti-poverty.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    nations, naps.
  • Noun, plural
    Households, Surveys, experiences, trials.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    roma, poorer.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    poverty-related, poverty-stricken, poor.
  • Proper noun, singular
    poor.
  • Noun, plural
    poor.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    destitution, deprivation, misery, squalor, penury, indigence, indigent, destitute, precariousness, scarcity, poor, wretchedness, pauperization, hardship, starvation.

Antonyms for Poverty:

• n.

  • want; extreme need, often financial
    enough, excess, abundance, sufficiency, fill, advantage, profit, ease, surplus, wealth, adequacy.
  • Other antonyms:
    opulence, oversupply, prosperity, luxury, affluence, copiousness, surfeit, bountifulness, richness, overabundance, amplitude, plenty.