Thesaurus:poverty

Thesaurus

poverty

English

Noun

Sense: lack of riches; few or no material possessions; state of being poor

Synonyms

• armth
• beggary
• destitution
• impecuniosity
• impecuniousness
• indigence
• mendicancy
• mendicity
• misery
• neediness
• pauperism
• penury
• poverty
• privation
• reduced circumstances
• slender means
• straitened circumstances

Antonyms

• wealth    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• bankruptcy
• insolvency

Hypernyms

• lack    [⇒ thesaurus]
• necessity
• need
• want

Various

• hardship
• keep the wolf from the door
• possessionlessness

See also

• Thesaurus:impoverished
• Thesaurus:pauper

Further reading

• “804. poverty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “poverty” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.