Thesaurus:poverty

Thesaurus:poverty

THESAURUS

poverty

English

Synonyms

• armth

• beggary

• destitution

• impecuniosity

• impecuniousness

• indigence

• mendicancy

• mendicity

• misery

• neediness

• pauperism

• penury

• poverty

• privation

• reduced circumstances

• slender means

• straitened circumstances

Antonyms

• wealth    [WS]

Hyponyms

• bankruptcy

• insolvency

Hypernyms

• lack    [WS]

• necessity

• need

• want

Various

• keep the wolf from the door

• possessionlessness

See also

• Thesaurus:impoverished
• Thesaurus:pauper

Further reading

• “804. poverty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “poverty” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.