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- Word Combinations (noun)
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| definition 1: |
the condition of being poor or lacking the necessary means of support; indigence or want.
Despite their work in the linen mill, the family lived in poverty.- synonyms:
- indigence, need, penury, want
- antonyms:
- luxury, opulence, riches, success, wealth
- similar words:
- beggary, deprivation, destitution, hardship, misery, necessity, pinch, privation, strait
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| definition 2: |
scarcity or insufficiency; dearth.
As there is a poverty of facts about the issue, the case cannot be argued either way.- synonyms:
- dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, paucity, penury, scarcity, shortage, want
- antonyms:
- abundance, affluence, plethora
- similar words:
- absence, lack, privation, stint
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| definition 3: |
lack of productiveness or fertility.
The poverty of the land made it difficult to eke out a living from farming.- synonyms:
- barrenness, impoverishment, infertility, meagerness
- antonyms:
- fertility
- similar words:
- bareness, destitution, exhaustion, privation
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