privation

Other forms of privation

plural

privations·

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 privation

What does privation mean?

privation means "a state of extreme poverty". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in privation?

privation has 3 syllables: pri-va-tion. The stress falls on "va". In IPA it is /pɹaɪˈveɪʃən/.

What is another word for privation?

Close synonyms include want, deprivation, neediness, deprivation. 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 privation a common word?

privation 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.

What rhymes with privation?

19 words rhyme with privation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.