poverty

noun

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There are 3 syllables in the word poverty.

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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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