| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want; extreme need, often financial |
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abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy |
Antonyms: |
abundance, affluence, luxury, richness, wealth |
| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
badly off, barefooted, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, depauperate, destitute, distressed, dowerless, egestuous, embarrassed, fleeced, fortuneless, hard up, ill off, impecunious, in want, indigent, insolvent, involved, moneyless, necessitous, needy, not worth a rap, obolary, out at elbows, out at heels, out at pocket, out of money, penniless, pinched, poor, poor as Job, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, poorly off, poverty stricken, put to one's last shifts, put to one's shifts, reduced, scunt, seedy, short of cash, short of money, straitened, stripped, unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet, under hatches, unmoneyed, unportioned, without a rap
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| Concept: | Poverty. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
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-nouns
poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door., bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances, embarrassed circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened circumstances; slender means, narrow means; straits; hand to mouth existence, red angusta domi, low water, impecuniosity., beggary; mendicancy, mendicity; broken fortune, loss of fortune; insolvency (nonpayment)., empty pocket, empty purse; light purse; beggarly account of empty boxes., [poor people] poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper, beggar, starveling; pauvre diable; fakir, schnorrer.
-verbs
be poor; want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny (money), not have a shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par la queue; run into debt (debt)., render poor; impoverish; reduce, reduce to poverty; pauperize, fleece, ruin, bring to the parish.
-adjectives
poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, unmoneyed; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap (money) [more]; qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared; destitute; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced., in want; needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched, straitened; put to one's shifts, put to one's last shifts; unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet; embarrassed, under hatches; involved (in debt); insolvent (not paying).
-adverbs
in forma pauperis.
-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];
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Antonyms: |
wealth |
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| Main Entry: | dearth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insufficiency, scarcity |
Synonyms: |
absence, default, defect, deficiency, exiguousness, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, poverty, privation, rareness, scantiness, scantness, shortage, slim pickings, sparsity, uncommonness, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, excess, plentifulness, plenty, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | distress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hardship, adversity |
Synonyms: |
bad luck, bummer, calamity, can of worms, catastrophe, crunch, destitution, difficulty, disaster, downer, drag*, exigency, hard knocks, hard time, holy mess, hot water, indigence, jam*, misfortune, need, pickle, pinch*, poverty, privation, rigor, rotten luck, scrape*, straits, throe, ticklish spot, tough break, tough luck, trial, trouble, unholy mess, vicissitude, want |
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advantage, benefit, miracle |
| Main Entry: | embarrassment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humiliation, shame |
Synonyms: |
awkward situation, awkwardness, bashfulness, bind, boo boo, chagrin, clumsiness, complexity, confusion, destitution, difficulty, dilemma, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, distress, egg on face, faux pas, fix, hitch, hot seat, hot water, impecuniosity, indebtedness, indiscretion, inhibition, mess, mistake, mortification, pickle, pinch, plight, poverty, predicament, puzzle, quandary, scrape, self-consciousness, shyness, snag, stew, strait, tangle, timidity, unease, uneasiness |
Antonyms: |
comfort, confidence |
| Main Entry: | famine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hunger |
Synonyms: |
dearth, destitution, drought, misery, paucity, poverty, scarcity, starvation, want |
Antonyms: |
feast, plenty, stores, supply |
| Main Entry: | inadequacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortage, defect, inability |
Synonyms: |
blemish, dearth, defalcation, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, drawback, failing, faultiness, flaw, imperfection, inadequateness, inaptness, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, incompleteness, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, inefficiency, ineptitude, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, paucity, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, skimpiness, underage, unfitness, unsuitableness, weakness |
Antonyms: |
ability, adequacy, enough, plenty, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
Synonyms: |
abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, exiguity, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficience, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, retrenchment, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, shrinkage, shrinking, slightness, stint, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |
| Main Entry: | misery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trouble, disaster |
Synonyms: |
adversity, affliction, anxiety, bitter pill, burden, calamity, catastrophe, curse, destitution, difficulty, grief, indigence, load, misfortune, need, ordeal, penury, poverty, privation, problem, sordidness, sorrow, squalor, trial, tribulation, want, woe |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, good fortune, good luck |