Antonyms for poverty
ˈpɒv ər tipover·ty

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1. poverty

   Poverty denotes strictly lack of property or adequate means of support, but in common use is a relative term denoting any condition below that of easy, comfortable living; privation denotes a condition of painful lack of what is useful or desirable, tho not to the extent of absolute distress; indigence is lack of ordinary means of subsistence; destitution is lack of the comforts, and in part even of the necessaries of life; penury is especially cramping poverty, possibly not so sharp as destitution, but continuous, while that may be temporary; pauperism is such destitution as throws one upon organized public charity for support; beggary and mendicancy denote poverty that appeals for indiscriminate private charity.

   Synonyms:
   beggary, destitution, distress, indigence, mendicancy, need, pauperism, penury, privation, want

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1. poverty

   Synonyms:
   want, need, indigence, destitution

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.4 / 8 votes

1. poverty, poorness, impoverishmentnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   wealthiness, wealth

   Synonyms:
   exiguity, leanness, impoverishment, pauperization, poorness, meagreness, meagerness, scantiness, pauperisation, scantness

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1. povertynoun

   Synonyms:
   penury, indigence, need, destitution, privation, neediness, impecuniosity, pauperism, deficiency, paucity, infecundity, dearth, lack, meagerness, sterility, barrenness

   Associated words:
   impoverish, impoverishment

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1. rich

   Submitted by anonymous on September 1, 2020  

How to use poverty in a sentence?

1. Dan Buettner:

   This notion that you have to be rich to be healthy is completely wrong, and in Blue Zones we're almost wholly seeing longevity among people who would technically be well below the U.S. poverty line.

2. Michele Jawando:

   For a long time in this country we've had a hard time developing a narrative around poverty, around race, so when there are incidents like this that sit at the apex of both, different people are going to have different reactions to that.

3. The Pope:

   As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor ; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

4. Victoire Ingabire:

   Outside Kigali, there are no infrastructures as what you see in Kigali. The Rwandan government has not increased employment across the country, that is why we have the majority of poverty in the rural areas.

5. Og Mandino:

   If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

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