poverty 音标拼音: [p'ɑvɚti]
n .
U 贫穷,贫困;贫乏,缺少
U 贫穷,贫困;贫乏,缺少
poverty n 1 :
the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions [
synonym : {
poverty }, {
poorness },
{
impoverishment }] [
ant : {
wealth }, {
wealthiness }]
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poverte ,
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paupertas ,
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pauper poor .
See {
Poor }.]
1 .
The quality or state of being poor or indigent ;
want or scarcity of means of subsistence ;
indigence ;
need .
"
Swathed in numblest poverty ." --
Keble .
[
1913 Webster ]
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty .
--
Prov .
xxiii .
21 .
[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
Syn :
Indigence ;
penury ;
beggary ;
need ;
lack ;
want ;
scantiness ;
sparingness ;
meagerness ;
jejuneness .
Usage : {
Poverty }, {
Indigence }, {
Pauperism }.
Poverty is a relative term ;
what is poverty to a monarch ,
would be competence for a day laborer .
Indigence implies extreme distress ,
and almost absolute destitution .
Pauperism denotes entire dependence upon public charity ,
and ,
therefore ,
often a hopeless and degraded state .
[
1913 Webster ]
Powan 44 Moby Thesaurus words for "
poverty ":
beggary ,
dearth ,
destitution ,
difficulty ,
distress ,
embarrassment ,
exigency ,
hand -
to -
mouth existence ,
hardship ,
impecuniousness ,
impoverishment ,
inadequacy ,
indigence ,
insolvency ,
insufficiency ,
juncture ,
lack ,
mendicancy ,
necessity ,
need ,
neediness ,
pass ,
paucity ,
pauperism ,
pennilessness ,
penury ,
pinch ,
poorness ,
privation ,
rareness ,
rarity ,
scant ,
scant sufficiency ,
scantiness ,
scarceness ,
scarcity ,
shortage ,
sparseness ,
sparsity ,
strait ,
suffering ,
uncommonness ,
unprosperousness ,
want
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