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WELFARE Antonyms

There are 10 antonyms of the word welfare. (opposite meanings)
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Best Opposite Words For WELFARE

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adversity
nounn
noun

• a state of misfortune or affliction

• a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event

deprivation
nounn
noun

• a state of extreme poverty

• the disadvantage that results from losing something

• act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

destitution
nounn
noun

• a state without friends or money or prospects

difficulty
nounn
noun

• an effort that is inconvenient

• the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result

hardship
nounn
noun

• a state of misfortune or affliction

• something hard to endure

• something that causes or entails suffering

misery
nounn
noun

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

• a feeling of intense unhappiness

need
verb, nounv, n
noun

• 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

verb

• require as useful, just, or proper

• have need of

• have or feel a need for

poverty
nounn
noun

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

sorrow
nounn
noun

• an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

• sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

• something that causes great unhappiness

• the state of being sad

verb

• feel grief

suffering
nounn
noun

• a state of acute pain

• misery resulting from affliction

• psychological suffering

• feelings of mental or physical pain

adjective satellite

• troubled by pain or loss

• very unhappy; full of misery

Alternatives for ADVERSITY

Alternatives for DEPRIVATION

Alternatives for DESTITUTION

Alternatives for DIFFICULTY

Alternatives for HARDSHIP

Alternatives for MISERY

Alternatives for NEED

Alternatives for POVERTY

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