[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

poverty \pov"erty\ po^v"~erty^, 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 powan
see also:
poor poverty grass aristida dichotoma danthonia spicata poverty indigence 
pauperism 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

poverty
     n : the state of having little or no money and few or no
         material possessions syn: poorness, impoverishment
         ant: wealth
see also:
poorness impoverishment wealth 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

[4] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

poverty, n.  a file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform.  the
number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who
suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about
it.  its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues
and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a
prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.

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