IMPOVERISHMENT Synonyms

• a state of extreme poverty

• the disadvantage that results from losing something

• act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

• a state without friends or money or prospects

• a state of misfortune or affliction

• something hard to endure

• something that causes or entails suffering

• a state of extreme poverty or destitution

• a condition requiring relief

• anything that is necessary but lacking

• the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

• a state of extreme poverty or destitution

• require as useful, just, or proper

• have need of

• have or feel a need for

• the act of making someone poor

• a state of extreme poverty or destitution

• the act of making someone poor

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

• less than adequate

• the quality of being meager

• the quality of being poorly made or maintained