<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor.</li><li>Synonyms: penury, pauperism, indigence, destitution, neediness, privation.</li><li>Antonyms: affluence, wealth, riches.</li><li>deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.: poverty of the soil.</li><li>Synonyms: insufficiency.</li><li>scantiness; insufficiency: Their efforts to stamp out disease were hampered by a poverty of medical supplies.</li><li>Synonyms: dearth, paucity, shortage, inadequacy.</li><li>Antonyms: sufficiency, surfeit, abundance, glut, excess.</li></ul>