Definition for Poverty:

• A term used to denote a condition in which people are unable to meet their basic necessities, due to lack of money or skill. There are two primary terms used to denote poverty; absolute and relative. Absolute poverty is when the people of a country are unable to provide for their basic needs, while relative poverty is when people find it difficult to live according to the standards set by the government.

Synonyms for Poverty:

• n.

  •
  • depletion,
  • loss,
  • stint,
  • crunch,
  • impecuniousness,
  • Neediness,
  • bite,
  • absence,
  • debt,
  • starvation,
  • pinch,
  • hunger,
  • deficit.
  •
  • defect,
  • austerity,
  • deprivation,
  • failing,
  • scarcity,
  • shortness,
  • gutter,
  • exigency.
  •
  • rich,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • penuriousness.
  •
  • underage,
  • shortcoming.
  •adversity (noun)
  • calamity,
  • contretemps,
  • rainy day,
  • torment,
  • casualty,
  • hardship,
  • blight,
  • agony,
  • affliction,
  • trial,
  • adversity,
  • misfortune,
  • dolor,
  • misery,
  • disaster,
  • mishap,
  • hard times,
  • catastrophe,
  • destitution,
  • bane,
  • woe,
  • difficulty,
  • ordeal,
  • infliction,
  • poorness,
  • burden,
  • tragedy,
  • curse,
  • distress,
  • misadventure,
  • peril,
  • hard luck,
  • bad luck,
  • trouble,
  • grief,
  • tribulation.
  •insufficiency (noun)
  • miserliness,
  • Flyspeck,
  • speck,
  • shortage,
  • deficiency,
  • scantiness,
  • scarceness,
  • pittance,
  • shortfall,
  • meagerness,
  • inadequacy,
  • sparseness,
  • niggardliness,
  • skimpiness,
  • stinginess.
  •lack (noun)
  • meagerness,
  • shortness,
  • exiguity,
  • shortfall.
  •poverty (noun)
  • pauperism,
  • want,
  • embarrassment,
  • lack,
  • paucity,
  • indigence,
  • homelessness,
  • pennilessness,
  • insufficiency,
  • poorhouse,
  • poorness,
  • tenuity,
  • impoverishment,
  • bankruptcy,
  • famine,
  • need,
  • mendicancy,
  • privation,
  • dearth,
  • Beggarliness,
  • insolvency,
  • penury,
  • asceticism.
  •shortage (noun)
  • scantness,
  • underage,
  • leanness,
  • scarceness.
  •ugliness (noun)
  • squalor.
  •want; extreme need, often financial (noun)
  • impecuniousness,
  • distress,
  • destitution,
  • meagerness,
  • exiguity,
  • indigence,
  • Necessitousness,
  • reduction,
  • hardship,
  • difficulty,
  • pass,
  • impoverishment,
  • barrenness,
  • vacancy,
  • aridity,
  • paucity,
  • insufficiency,
  • pinch,
  • underdevelopment,
  • beggary,
  • inadequacy,
  • scarcity,
  • deficiency,
  • emptiness,
  • insolvency,
  • dearth,
  • pauperism,
  • famine,
  • penury,
  • straits,
  • privation,
  • depletion,
  • starvation,
  • debt,
  • shortage,
  • abjection,
  • deficit,
  • poorness,
  • lack,
  • pennilessness,
  • bankruptcy,
  • necessity.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • penuriousness,
  • impecuniousness,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • absence,
  • Neediness,
  • loss,
  • Without,
  • deprivation,
  • nonattendance.
  •
  • shortcoming,
  • austerity,
  • gutter,
  • underage,
  • deficit.
  •
  • dog,
  • necessity,
  • defect.
  •deficiency
  • scarcity.
  •misery
  • wretchedness.
  •Other relevant words:
  • inanition,
  • tight squeeze,
  • inhibit,
  • deficit,
  • leanness,
  • deprivation,
  • hunger,
  • faulty,
  • imbecility,
  • defect,
  • hand-to-mouth existence,
  • anaemia,
  • or so,
  • stolidity,
  • curtail,
  • prevent,
  • perplexity,
  • extreme,
  • child poverty,
  • pathetic,
  • Neediness,
  • almost,
  • shortsightedness,
  • be short,
  • fail,
  • strait,
  • impecuniousness,
  • Destituteness,
  • gutter,
  • loss,
  • hole,
  • defective,
  • suffering,
  • condense,
  • roughly,
  • shortness,
  • everywhere,
  • penuriousness,
  • be poor,
  • frivolity,
  • dearth,
  • pitiful,
  • indigent,
  • sordidness,
  • close to,
  • restrain,
  • hold,
  • pain,
  • shortcoming,
  • bloodlessness,
  • undetermined,
  • needfulness,
  • simply,
  • vacancy,
  • cut,
  • anguish,
  • meagreness,
  • obscure,
  • emptiness,
  • hebetude,
  • underdevelopment,
  • commonly,
  • needs,
  • ordinarily,
  • Without,
  • paltriness,
  • straitened,
  • lacuna,
  • debase,
  • contain,
  • collective noun,
  • scant,
  • dire,
  • generically,
  • stupidity,
  • foolishness,
  • abjection,
  • abate,
  • nonattendance,
  • dog,
  • depression,
  • impoverished,
  • incomplete,
  • austerity,
  • exigency,
  • Mendicity,
  • altogether,
  • Necessitousness,
  • bound,
  • exiguity,
  • just,
  • crunch,
  • around,
  • indeterminate,
  • about,
  • weigh,
  • stress,
  • depress,
  • deficient,
  • drought,
  • need,
  • restrict,
  • debt,
  • miserly,
  • defalcation,
  • bind,
  • poorhouse,
  • hapless,
  • failing,
  • uncertain,
  • incapacity,
  • insubstantial,
  • rudely,
  • panperism,
  • squalor,
  • straits,
  • incompetence,
  • depletion,
  • wretchedness,
  • thereabouts,
  • abbreviate,
  • unskillfulness,
  • normally,
  • undefined,
  • approximately,
  • uselessness,
  • harshly,
  • starvation,
  • hardly,
  • sparsity,
  • pinch,
  • pauperisation,
  • necessity,
  • pare,
  • poor,
  • reduce,
  • beggary,
  • stingy,
  • emergency,
  • triviality,
  • sterility,
  • barrenness,
  • business,
  • curb,
  • infertility,
  • stint,
  • underage,
  • uncommonness,
  • aridity,
  • Unprosperousness,
  • circularly,
  • silliness,
  • rareness,
  • coarsely,
  • rich,
  • sad,
  • diminish,
  • regularly,
  • contract,
  • Difficulties,
  • violently,
  • scantness,
  • indistinct,
  • sincerely,
  • vanity,
  • smallness,
  • matter of indifference,
  • juncture,
  • pass,
  • undersupply,
  • bite,
  • confine,
  • generally,
  • anywhere,
  • absence,
  • unevenly,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • wretched,
  • doubt,
  • imperfect,
  • vague,
  • isthmus,
  • rarity,
  • all but,
  • scarcity,
  • needy,
  • frequently,
  • extremity,
  • broadly,
  • destitute,
  • govern,
  • exiguousness,
  • levity,
  • inadequateness,
  • pauperization,
  • nearly,
  • failure,
  • arrange,
  • reduction.

Antonyms for Poverty:

• n.

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