poverty

Other forms of poverty

plural

poverties·

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 poverty

What does poverty mean?

poverty means "the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions".

How many syllables are in poverty?

poverty has 3 syllables: po-ver-ty. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˈpɑvɚti/.

What is another word for poverty?

Close synonyms include poorness, impoverishment. 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.

What is the opposite of poverty?

The recorded antonyms are wealth.

Is poverty a common word?

poverty is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.