Poverty

Noun

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

Adjectives for Poverty
pinching; appalling; relative; hated; imaginary; benumbing; absolute; comparative; inevitable; abject; astonishing; squalid wretched; genteel; peculiar; hard-working deepening; irremediable; everlasting; low continual; lifelong; haughty; distressful speedy; extreme; general; worthless; utter; honorable; contorted; consequent; disgraceful.

Verbs for Poverty
abhor—; abolish—; accept—; banish—; boast of—; drive off—; outwit—; plead—; prolong—;   suffer—;  —callouses ;  —degrades; —dogs; —fetters; —oppresses; — overtakes; —pursues; —ravages; —stalks; —stigmatizes.

Thesaurus
privation, rareness, rarity, scant, scant sufficiency, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, sparseness, sparsity, strait, suffering, uncommonness, unprosperousness, want, 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,

Etymology
From, from poverté: (Modern French pauvreté:), from  paupertas:, from pauper: + -tas:. Cognates include pauper:, poor:.

Translations

 * Arabic: (faqr)
 * Catalan: pobresa
 * Chinese: 贫穷 (pínqióng)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vaesus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: עוני
 * Hindi: ग़रीबी
 * Hungarian:, nyomorúság, nincstelenség
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: povressa
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 貧乏 (びんぼう, bimbō)
 * Korean: 가난 (ganan) or  빈곤 (bingon)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, нищета
 * Scottish Gaelic: bochdainn, truaighe
 * Slovak: ,
 * Spanish: pobreza, pauperrísmo
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పేదరికం, బీదరికం
 * Turkish: fakirlik, yoksulluk
 * Urdu: غریبی


 * Catalan: pobresa
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:


 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: nedostatok
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: