poverty
Meaning of poverty
noun
- the state of being extremely poor.
thousands of families are living in abject poverty
- the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount.
the poverty of her imagination
Middle English: from Old French poverte, from Latin paupertas, from pauper ‘poor’.
Information about poverty
- It is a name.
- The plural form of poverty is: poverties.
- Languages in which poverty is used:
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Hyphenation of poverty
poverty
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- poverty is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
poverty synonyms
Meaning poorness:
Meaning the state of being very poor; extreme poverty:
Meaning poverty so extreme that one lacks the means to provide for oneself:
Meaning a state of extreme poverty; destitution:
Meaning a state in which food and other essentials for well-being are lacking:
Meaning the damaging lack of material benefits considered to be basic necessities in a society:
Meaning the state of requiring help, or of lacking basic necessities such as food:
Meaning the state of being poor and in need of essentials; poverty:
Meaning severe suffering or privation:
Meaning a state of extreme poverty:
Meaning the state of being bankrupt:
Meaning the state of being insolvent:
Meaning the state of being scarce or in short supply; shortage:
Meaning a lack or shortage:
Meaning a scarcity or lack of something:
Meaning a state or situation in which something needed cannot be obtained in sufficient amounts:
Meaning the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts:
Meaning the condition of being insufficient:
Meaning the state or quality of being inadequate; lack of the quantity or quality required:
Meaning the non-existence or lack of:
Meaning the state of being without or not having enough of something:
Meaning the amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small:
Meaning lack of quantity or quality; inadequacy:
Meaning the condition of being lower in status or quality than another or others:
Meaning the quality or state of being mediocre:
Meaning the quality or condition of being sterile:
poverty antonyms
Meaning an abundance of valuable possessions or money:
Meaning a very large quantity of something:
Translation of poverty
- German: Armut, Bedürftigkeit, Elend
- Spanish: pobreza, miseria
- French: pauvreté, misère
- Italian: povertà, indigenza, miseria
- Portuguese: pobreza
Words that rhyme with poverty
Berty, Huberty, Liberty, impuberty, liberty, postpuberty, prepuberty, pseudopuberty, puberty, uberty, umberty, certy, Lafferty, McCafferty, Rafferty, Gerty, Haggerty, Swagerty, Daugherty, Docherty, Doherty, Dougherty, Flaherty, Herty, O'Flaherty, cherty, mulierty, Eckerty, Nerty, champerty, disproperty, perty, property, snipperty, antipoverty, soverty, verty, qwerty, azerty
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