poverty

n. state of being poor, destitution, indigence; scantiness, deficiency, scarcity

Poverty is being without things, having little money, not many material possessions and in need of essential goods.Poverty is understood in many senses. The main understandings of the term include:Descriptions of material need, typically including the necessities of daily living (food, clothing, shelter, and health care). Poverty in this sense may be understood as a condition in which a person or community is deprived of, and or lacks the essentials for a minimum standard of well-being and life. These essentials may be material resources such as food, safe drinking water, and shelter, or they may be social resources such as access to information, education, health care, social status, political power, or the opportunity to develop meaningful connections with other people in society.Descriptions of social relationships and need, including social exclusion , dependency , and the ability to participate in society. This would include education and information. Describing a (persistent) lack of income and wealth. The World Bank, for example, uses a global indicator of incomes of $1 or $2 a day. In relative terms disparities in income or wealth income disparities are seen as an indicator of poverty and the condition of poverty is linked to questions of scarcity and distribution of resources and power.
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Noun
1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
(synonym) poorness, impoverishment
(antonym) wealth, wealthiness
(hypernym) financial condition, economic condition
(hyponym) privation, want, deprivation

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

(n.)
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.
  

one that draws water; poverty; cloud; death
  

or Anath, answer; song; poverty
  

poverty; bitter; a rebel
  

the bed of the Lord; the Lord hath taken away; poverty
  

Machbanai, poverty; the smiting of his son