| Main Entry: | impoverishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
Synonyms: |
abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy, want |
| Main Entry: | impoverishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debilitation |
Synonyms: |
attenuation, deficiency, depletion, devitalization, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, reduction |
| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
Synonyms: |
deprivation, destitution, distress, extremity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, lack, neediness, paucity, pennilessness, penury, poorness, privation, shortage, want |
| Notes: | knead means to make into a uniform mass, as by folding, pressing, and stretching with the hands or manually manipulate someone's body usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes; a need (noun) is something required or wanted - need (verb) means to require or have a need of |
Antonyms: |
luxury, riches, wealth |
| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want; extreme need, often financial |
Synonyms: |
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: | squalor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | filth, poverty |
Synonyms: |
decay, destitution, dirtiness, foulness, grunginess, impoverishment, indigence, poorness, seediness, starvation, wretchedness |
| Main Entry: | want |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack, need |
Synonyms: |
absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, destitution, exigency, exiguousness, famine, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, meagerness, neediness, paucity, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, skimpiness |
Antonyms: |
abundance, plenty |
| Main Entry: | poorness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want |
Synonyms: |
destitution, impecuniousness, impoverishment, meagerness, need, poverty |
| Main Entry: | attenuation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debilitation |
Synonyms: |
depletion, devitalization, enfeeblement, exhaustion, fading, impoverishment, weakening, weakness |
| Main Entry: | beggary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
Synonyms: |
begging, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, mendicancy, mendicity, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poorness |
| Main Entry: | griminess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirtiness |
Synonyms: |
decay, destitution, filth, filthiness, foulness, grubbiness, grunginess, impoverishment, indigence, poorness, seediness, smuttiness, squalor, starvation, uncleanliness, uncleanness, wretchedness |