Synonyms of poverty

1 Syllable

pinch, lack, straits, debt, dearth, pass

2 Syllables

fewness, leanness, distress, poorness, scantness, shortness, tightness, hardship, slightness

3 Syllables

starvation, sparseness, scarceness, famine, slenderness, deficit, reduction, privation, sparsity, skimpiness, inaptness, bankruptcy, depletion, shortage, vacancy, abjection, barrenness, paucity, penury, meagerness, retrenchment, beggary, sordidness, scantiness, faultiness, scarcity, emptiness, pauperism

4 Syllables

insolvency, destitution, pennilessness, indigence, necessity, exiguousness, exiguity, aridity, embarrassment, deficiency, defalcation, difficulty

5 Syllables

incompleteness, inadequacy, impecuniousness, impoverishment, necessitousness, defectiveness, insufficience, insufficiency, inadequacies

6 Syllables

underdevelopment