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.

  •
  • 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.
  •paucity (noun)
  • slendernesses,
  • sparsenesses,
  • fewnesses.
  •poverty (noun)
  • insolvency,
  • mendicancy,
  • poorhouse,
  • indigence,
  • asceticism,
  • impoverishment,
  • Beggarliness,
  • homelessness,
  • tenuity,
  • insufficiency,
  • bankruptcy,
  • pennilessness.
  •privation (noun)
  • dis advantages,
  • dis-advantages,
  • dis advantage,
  • dis-advantage.
  •shortage (noun)
  • scantness,
  • tightness,
  • leanness,
  • scarceness.
  •ugliness (noun)
  • squalor.
  •want (noun)
  • pauperisms.
  •want; extreme need, often financial (noun)
  • starvation,
  • abjection,
  • impecuniousness,
  • beggary,
  • deficiency,
  • depletion,
  • vacancy,
  • debt,
  • straits,
  • pinch,
  • emptiness,
  • barrenness,
  • underdevelopment,
  • meagerness,
  • pass,
  • aridity,
  • Necessitousness,
  • reduction,
  • exiguity.

• Other synonyms:

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

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.

Poverty Sentence Examples:

• They tried to make light of their poverty.

• Robert Burrell, the other lover, had nothing romantic about him, not even poverty.