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Poverty

Poverty Meaning & Definition
Poverty Definition And Meaning

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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