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exiguity
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, exiguity, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficience, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, retrenchment, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, shrinkage, shrinking, slightness, stint, want |
| Antonyms: | abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |
| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | penuriousness |
| 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, pennilessness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy, want |
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| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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badly off, barefooted, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, depauperate, destitute, distressed, dowerless, egestuous, embarrassed, fleeced, fortuneless, hard up, ill off, impecunious, in want, indigent, insolvent, involved, moneyless, necessitous, needy, not worth a rap, obolary, out at elbows, out at heels, out at pocket, out of money, penniless, pinched, poor, poor as Job, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, poorly off, poverty stricken, put to one's last shifts, put to one's shifts, reduced, scunt, seedy, short of cash, short of money, straitened, stripped, unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet, under hatches, unmoneyed, unportioned, without a rap
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