English-Thai Dictionary

poverty

N การ ขาดสารอาหาร (ดิน  absence defect lack paucity abundance kan-kad-san-ar-han

 

poverty

N ความจน  ความ อัตคัด  ความขาดแคลน  ความฝืดเคือง  beggary deprivation need indigence kwam-jon

 

poverty-stricken

ADJ ยากจน  ขัดสน มาก  insolvent indigent broke solvent yak-jon

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POVERTY

n.[L. paupertas. See Poor. ] 1. Destitution of property; indigence; want of convenient means of subsistence. The consequence of poverty is dependence.
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Proverbs 23:21.
2. Barrenness of sentiment or ornament; defect; as the poverty of a composition.
3. Want; defect of words; as the poverty of language.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

POVERTY

Pov "er *ty, n. Etym: [OE. poverte, OF. poverté, F. pauvreté, 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. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.

 

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. 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.

 

Syn. -- Indigence; penury; beggary; need; lack; want; scantiness; sparingness; meagerness; jejuneness. 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

poverty

pov er ty |ˈpävərtē ˈpɑvərdi | ▶noun the state of being extremely poor: thousands of families are living in abject poverty. • the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount: the poverty of her imagination. • the renunciation of the right to individual ownership of property as part of a religious vow. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French poverte, from Latin paupertas, from pauper ‘poor. ’

 

poverty line

pov er ty line |ˈpɑvərdi laɪn | ▶noun the estimated minimum level of income needed to secure the necessities of life.

 

poverty-stricken

pov er ty-strick en |ˈpɑvərdi ˌstrɪkən | ▶adjective extremely poor: thousands of poverty-stricken people.

 

poverty trap

pov |erty trap ▶noun Brit. a situation in which an increase in someone's income is offset by a consequent loss of state benefits, leaving them no better off.

 

Oxford Dictionary

poverty

pov |erty |ˈpɒvəti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 the state of being extremely poor: thousands of families are living in abject poverty. • the renunciation of the right to individual ownership of property as part of a religious vow. 2 the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount: the poverty of her imagination. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French poverte, from Latin paupertas, from pauper ‘poor ’.

 

poverty line

pov |erty line ▶noun the estimated minimum level of income needed to secure the necessities of life.

 

poverty-stricken

poverty-stricken ▶adjective extremely poor.

 

poverty trap

pov |erty trap ▶noun Brit. a situation in which an increase in someone's income is offset by a consequent loss of state benefits, leaving them no better off.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

poverty

poverty noun 1 abject poverty: penury, destitution, pauperism, pauperdom, beggary, indigence, pennilessness, impoverishment, neediness, need, hardship, impecuniousness. ANTONYMS wealth. 2 the poverty of choice: scarcity, deficiency, dearth, shortage, paucity, insufficiency, absence, lack. ANTONYMS abundance. 3 the poverty of her imagination: inferiority, mediocrity, poorness, sterility.

 

poverty-stricken

poverty-stricken adjective I'm not poverty-stricken, but I could certainly use some assistance: extremely poor, impoverished, destitute, penniless, as poor as a church mouse, in penury, impecunious, indigent, needy, in need /want, without a cent (to one's name ); informal without two coins /cents to rub together; formal penurious.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

poverty

poverty noun 1 they experienced years of relentless poverty: penury, destitution, indigence, pennilessness, privation, deprivation, impoverishment, neediness, need, want, hardship, impecuniousness, impecuniosity, hand-to-mouth existence, beggary, pauperism, straitened circumstances, bankruptcy, insolvency; Economics primary poverty; rare pauperdom. ANTONYMS wealth. 2 the poverty of choice meant that many left-wing voters read right-wing papers: scarcity, deficiency, dearth, shortage, paucity, insufficiency, inadequacy, absence, lack, want, deficit, meagreness, limitedness, restrictedness, sparseness, sparsity; rare exiguity. ANTONYMS abundance. 3 the poverty of her imagination: inferiority, mediocrity, poorness, barrenness, aridity, sterility. WORD LINKS poverty peniaphobia fear of poverty Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

poverty-stricken

poverty-stricken adjective his family was poverty-stricken and starving: extremely poor, impoverished, destitute, penniless, on one's beam-ends, as poor as a church mouse, without a sou, dirt poor, in penury, penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, needful, in need /want, unable to make ends meet, down and out, necessitous, beggarly, moneyless, bankrupt, in straitened circumstances; Brit. on the breadline, without a penny (to one's name ); informal broke, flat broke, cleaned out, strapped for cash, strapped, on one's uppers; Brit. informal stony broke, skint, without two pennies /farthings to rub together, in Queer Street; N. Amer. informal stone broke; rare pauperized, beggared.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

poverty

pov er ty /pɑ́və r ti |pɔ́v -/→poor 名詞 1 U 貧乏 (であること ), 貧困 , 貧窮 ▸ live in poverty 貧しい暮らしをする ▸ Poverty is not a crime [no sin ].｟ことわざ ｠貧しいことで人を責めてはならない .2 U ｟かたく ｠〖時にa ～〗【必要なものの 】欠乏 , 欠如 , 不足 «of , in » ▸ poverty of ideas アイディア不足 3 U 【土地などの 】不毛 ; 貧弱さ «of , in » .～́ l ì ne [｟主に米 ｠l è vel ]〖the ～〗貧困ライン 〘最低限の生活ができる水準 〙.～́ tr à p 〖通例単数形で 〗貧困のわな 〘収入が増えると補助が受けられなくなるので貧乏から脱け出せない状態 〙.

 

poverty-stricken

p ó verty-str ì cken 形容詞 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗非常に貧乏な .