Poverty

Synonyms for poverty
noun want; extreme need, often financial

bankruptcy
debt
hardship
lack
famine
difficulty
scarcity
shortage
starvation
deficit
distress

privation
dearth
vacancy
deficiency
pass
meagerness
emptiness
inadequacy
indigence
depletion
reduction

impoverishment
pennilessness
insolvency
impecuniousness
destitution
paucity
barrenness
insufficiency
poorness
necessity
beggary

pinch
penury
underdevelopment
straits
aridity
pauperism
exiguity
abjection
necessitousness

Antonyms for poverty

profit
abundance
enough
plenty
surplus

advantage
sufficiency
fill
adequacy
wealth

affluence
luxury
richness
excess
ease

Concept Thesaurus for word poverty
4. Monetary Relations
Synonyms – noun

poverty
destitution
lack
difficulties
need circumstances
slender means
red angusta domi
mendicancy
insolvency (nonpayment)
beggarly account of empty boxes.
mumper
fakir

indigence
want
necessity
wolf at the door.
embarrassed circumstances
narrow means
low water
mendicity
empty pocket
[poor people] poor man
beggar
schnorrer.

penury
need
privation
bad circumstances
reduced circumstances
straits
impecuniosity.
broken fortune
empty purse
pauper
starveling

pauperism
neediness
distress
poor circumstances
straightened circumstances
hand to mouth existence
beggary
loss of fortune
light purse
mendicant
pauvre diable

Synonyms – verbs

be poor
live from hand to mouth
go to the dogs
beg one’s bread
impoverish
fleece

want
have seen better days
go to wrack and ruin
tirer le diable par la queue
reduce
ruin

lack
go down in the world
not have a penny (money)
run into debt (debt)
reduce to poverty
bring to the parish.

starve
come upon the parish
not have a shot in one’s locker
render poor
pauperize

Synonyms – adjectives

poor
poorly off
poor as a Job
penniless
out of money
without a rap
hard up
bare-footed
fleeced
reduced.
distressed
put to one’s last shifts
under hatches

indigent
ill off
fortuneless
unportioned
out of cash
not worth a rap (money) [more]
out at elbows
beggarly
stripped
in want
pinched
unable to keep the wolf from the door
involved (in debt)

poverty-stricken
poor as a rat
dowerless
unmoneyed
short of money
qui n’a pas le sou
out at heels
beggared
bereft
needy
straitened
unable to make both ends meet
insolvent (not paying)

badly off
poor as a church mouse
moneyless
impecunious
short of cash
out of pocket
seedy
destitute
bereaved
necessitous
put to one’s shifts
embarrassed

Synonyms – phrases
zonam perdidit; “a penniless lass wi’ a lang pedigree” [Lady Nairne]; a pobreza no hay verguenza; “he that is down can fall no lower” [Butler]; poca roba poco pensiero; “steeped… in poverty to the very lips” [Othello];
Antonyms

wealth

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Other adjectives related to poverty

badly off
bereft
dowerless
fortuneless
in want
moneyless
obolary
out of money
poor as Job
poverty stricken
scunt
straitened
under hatches

barefooted
depauperate
egestuous
hard up
indigent
necessitous
out at elbows
penniless
poor as a church mouse
put to one’s last shifts
seedy
stripped
unmoneyed

beggarly
destitute
embarrassed
ill off
insolvent
needy
out at heels
pinched
poor as a rat
put to one’s shifts
short of cash
unable to keep the wolf from the door
unportioned

bereaved
distressed
fleeced
impecunious
involved
not worth a rap
out at pocket
poor
poorly off
reduced
short of money
unable to make both ends meet
without a rap

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