Meaning of POVERTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'pâvurtee
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[n] the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions |
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POVERTY is a 7 letter word that starts with P. |
| | Synonyms: | | impoverishment, poorness |
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| | Antonyms: | | wealth, wealthiness | | |
| | See Also: | | beggary, deprivation, destitution, economic condition, financial condition, impecuniousness, indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, privation, want | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pov"er*ty\ (p[o^]v"[~e]r*t[y^]), n. [OE. poverte, OF.
povert['e], F. pauvret['e], fr. L. paupertas, fr. pauper
poor. See {Poor}.]
1. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or
scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
``Swathed in numblest poverty.'' --Keble.
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.
--Prov. xxiii.
21.
2. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or
desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil;
poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
{Poverty grass} (Bot.), a name given to several slender
grasses (as {Aristida dichotoma}, and {Danthonia spicata})
which often spring up on old and worn-out fields.
Syn: Indigence; penury; beggary; need; lack; want;
scantiness; sparingness; meagerness; jejuneness.
Usage: {Poverty}, {Indigence}, {Pauperism}. Poverty is a
relative term; what is poverty to a monarch, would be
competence for a day laborer. Indigence implies
extreme distress, and almost absolute destitution.
Pauperism denotes entire dependence upon public
charity, and, therefore, often a hopeless and degraded
state.
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| | Related Terms: | | beggary, dearth, destitution, difficulty, distress, embarrassment, exigency, hand-to-mouth existence, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, juncture, lack, mendicancy, necessity, need, neediness, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, rareness, rarity, scant, scant sufficiency, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, sparseness, sparsity, strait, suffering, uncommonness, unprosperousness, want |
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