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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}] Poverty \ Pov" er* ty\ ( p[ o^] v"[~ e] r* t[ y^]), n. [ OE. poverte, OF. povert[' e], F. pauvret[' e], fr. L. paupertas, fr. 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] Powan44 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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