Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | barrenness, dearth, destitution, indigence, insufficiency, need, privation, scantiness |
| Antonyms: | affluence, wealth |
| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | deprivation, destitution, distress, extremity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, lack, neediness, paucity, pennilessness, penury, poorness, privation, shortage, want |
| Notes: | knead means to make into a uniform mass, as by folding, pressing, and stretching with the hands or manually manipulate someone's body usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes; a need (noun) is something required or wanted - need (verb) means to require or have a need of |
| Antonyms: | luxury, riches, wealth |
| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want; extreme need, often financial |
| 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, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy |
| Antonyms: | abundance, affluence, luxury, richness, wealth |
| Main Entry: | want |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack, need |
| Synonyms: | absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, destitution, exigency, exiguousness, famine, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, meagerness, neediness, paucity, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, skimpiness |
| Notes: | wont is a custom, especially habitual; want is a desire or need |
| Antonyms: | abundance, plenty |
| Main Entry: | privateer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pirate |
| Synonyms: | buccaneer, corsair, distress, freebooter, lack, pauperism, penury, privation, ship, vessel |
| Main Entry: | indigence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poorness |
| Synonyms: | destitution, penury |
| Antonyms: | wealth |
| Main Entry: | beggary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | begging, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, mendicancy, mendicity, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poorness |
| 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 |
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