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Poverty

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Pov´er`ty   Pronunciation: pǒv´ẽr`tŷ
n.1.The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.
- Prov. xxiii. 21.
2.Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
Poverty grass
(Bot.) a name given to several slender grasses (as Aristida dichotoma, and Danthonia spicata) which often spring up on old and worn-out fields.
Noun1.Povertypoverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
Antonyms:
wealth, wealthiness - the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money; "great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence"
beggary, dearth, difficulty, distress, embarrassment, exigency, hand-to-mouth existence, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, insolvency, insufficiency, juncture, lack, mendicancy, neediness, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, pinch, poorness, rareness, rarity, scant, scant sufficiency, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, sparseness, sparsity, strait, suffering, uncommonness, unprosperousness

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