Word Meaning

Meaning of poverty

- The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
- 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.

Crossword clue for poverty

- Financial hardship
- Need, want of necessities
- Pauperism
- State of being very poor