English > poverty: 1 sense > noun 1, stateMeaning | The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. |
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Synonyms | poorness, impoverishment |
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Narrower | destitution | A state without friends or money or prospects |
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impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness | A state of lacking money |
indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization | A state of extreme / extreme poverty or destitution |
privation, want, deprivation, neediness | A state of extreme / extreme poverty |
Broader | financial condition | The condition of (corporate or personal) finances |
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Opposite | wealth, wealthiness | The state of being rich and affluent |
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Spanish | desabrigo, empobrecimiento, inopia, miseria, pauperismo, pobretería, pobreza |
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Catalan | empobriment, fretura, misèria, pobre, pobresa |
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