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povertynoun the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessionshe dreamed of finding a good job and working his way out of poverty and debt beggary, destituteness, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, penuriousness, penury, poorness, want gutter, misery, woe, wretchednessexigencyemergency, rainy dayausterity, deprivation, privationbankruptcy, insolvencybelt-tightening, pinching, straitening affluence, opulence, richness, wealth, wealthiness luxury, prosperity a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or numbera poverty of information about the new policies crunch, dearth, deficiency, deficit, drought(also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want absence, omissionmeagerness, poorness, skimpinessnecessity, need, privation abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth bountifulness, copiousnessexcess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus poverty, indigence, penury, want, destitution mean the state of one with insufficient resources.poverty may cover a range from extreme want of necessities to an absence of material comforts.the extreme poverty of the slum dwellers indigence implies seriously straitened circumstances.the indigence of her years as a graduate student penury suggests a cramping or oppressive lack of money.a catastrophic illness that condemned them to years of penury want and destitution imply extreme poverty that threatens life itself through starvation or exposure.lived in a perpetual state of want the widespread destitution in countries beset by famine in the 12th century |