poverty
nounHow many syllables in poverty?
There are 3 syllables in the word poverty.How to pronounce poverty:
Definition of poverty:
- poverty (noun):
- the state of lacking adequate food or money
- the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.
- the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions
Synonyms for poverty:
bankruptcy
beggary
deprivation
destituteness
destitution
distress
emergency
hand-to-mouth existence
hardship
impecuniosity
impecuniousness
impoverishment
indigence
insolvency
misery
necessitousness
necessity
need
neediness
pauperism
pauperization
pennilessness
penuriousness
penury
poorness
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Antonyms for poverty:
abundance
achievement
adequacy
advantage
affluence
ampleness
amplitude
asset
benefit
blessing
boom
bountifulness
bounty
capital
comfort
commonness
copiousness
ease
enough
excess
exorbitance
extra
extravagance
feast
fill
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Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- acosmist
- homesick
- daresay
- well-mannered
- aerobics
- unprovoked
- summarized
- inhabit
- honesty
- tyranny
- covetous
- badminton
- prentices
- parable
- abysmal
- idleness
- climbable
- overdone
- hastiness
- edify
- Afrikaans
- saturate
- maverick
- whichever
- subtraction
- inhuman
- eventful
- sparingly
- flattering
- disbelieve
- arrogate
- frustrating
- useable
- scaling-down
- procedure
- clemency
- tormenting
- salient
- quotation
- correctness
- almighty
- expurgate
- kidnapper
- confluence
- wherefore
- perfectly
- Cametra
- effluent
- unbutton
- meandering
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