impoverishment

1. 1.

   the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

   Synonymspovertypoorness

   Broaderfinancial condition

   Narrowerprivationdestitutionindigenceimpecuniousness
2. 2.

   the act of making someone poor

   Synonymspauperizationpauperisation

   Broaderprivation

Other forms of impoverishment

plural

impoverishments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about impoverishment

What does impoverishment mean?

impoverishment means "the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in impoverishment?

impoverishment has 4 syllables: im-pove-rish-ment. The stress falls on "pove". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpɑvɹɪʃmənt/.

What is another word for impoverishment?

Close synonyms include poverty, poorness, pauperization, pauperisation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is impoverishment a common word?

impoverishment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.