About The Word Poverty
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Poverty
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What's The Definition Of Poverty?
[n] the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
Synonyms | Synonyms for Poverty: impoverishment | poorness Related Terms | Find terms related to Poverty: 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 See Also | beggary | deprivation | destitution | economic condition | financial condition | impecuniousness | indigence | need | pauperism | pauperization | pennilessness | penuriousness | penury | privation | want Poverty In Webster's Dictionary \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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