Definitions for poverty

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poverty pov·er·ty

Spelling: [pov-er-tee]

IPA: /ˈpɒv ər ti/

Poverty is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in poverty (eoprtvy).

Definitions for poverty

noun

1. the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.
2. deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.: Synonyms: thinness, poorness, insufficiency.
3. scantiness; insufficiency: Synonyms: meagerness, inadequacy, sparseness, shortage, paucity, dearth. Antonyms: abundance, surfeit, sufficiency, bounty, glut.

Origin of poverty

1125-75; Middle English poverte Old French Latin paupertāt- (stem of paupertās) small means, moderate circumstances. See pauper, -ty²

Examples for poverty

I asked for world peace, religious tolerance and an end to poverty.

Its most significant details were of a sordid kind, familiar to poverty.

Many in our country do not know the pain of poverty, but we can listen to those who do.

The losers have always been children in poverty, children of color, and children with disabilities.

Nor do these studies address the structural and systematic issues that contribute to obesity, such as poverty and stress.

In the one case, as she knew it, a girl under the urge of poverty had stolen.

They rend the heart with pity all the more for the reason that there is no sense in their poverty.

It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time.

In 2011, only 27 percent of families living in poverty were receiving welfare assistance.

She cared little for poverty or riches, as long as she had regained her chief treasures.