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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency |
| Synonyms: | curtailment, dearth, defalcation, deficit, failure, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, leanness, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarcity, shortfall, tightness, underage, want, weakness |
| Antonyms: | abundance, ample, enough, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | scarcity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency |
| Synonyms: | dearth, drought, exiguity, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, insufficiency, lack, paucity, rareness, rarity, scantiness, shortage, sparsity, stringency, uncommonness, want |
| Antonyms: | abundance, commonness, excess, surplus |
| Main Entry: | penury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | barrenness, dearth, destitution, indigence, insufficiency, need, privation, scantiness |
| Antonyms: | affluence, wealth |
| Main Entry: | insufficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack |
| Synonyms: | dearth, deficiency, inability, inadequacy, incompetency, paucity |
| Antonyms: | sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | impecuniosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy, want |
| Main Entry: | impecuniousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniosity, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy, want |
| Main Entry: | impoverishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy, want |
| Main Entry: | neediness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, need, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy, want |
| Main Entry: | pennilessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pass, paucity, pauperism, penuriousness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy, want |
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