Poverty
Penury
Synonyms Penury, indigence, privation, impoverishment, need, hardship, impecuniosity, beggary, straitened circumstances, insolvency, pauperdom, destitution, pennilessness, deprivation, neediness, want, impecuniousness, hand-to-mouth existence, pauperism, bankruptcy, and primary poverty.
Scarcity
Example Sentences
Poverty affects millions of families worldwide.
They work to alleviate extreme poverty.
Education can help reduce poverty levels.
Poverty often leads to hopelessness and despair.