英语词汇“poverty”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

poverty

/ˈpɒvəti

noun [mass noun]

1The state of being extremely poor: thousands of families are living in abject poverty...

The results suggest that providing day care may be insufficient as a strategy to reduce poverty.
The new kind of poverty was in the process of acquiring a revolutionary quality.
Looking at this village now, it is hard to imagine the poverty that existed here 100 years ago.

Synonyms

penury, destitution, indigence, pennilessness, privation, deprivation, impoverishment, neediness, need, want, hardship, impecuniousness, impecuniosity, hand-to-mouth existence, beggary, pauperism, straitened circumstances, bankruptcy, insolvency;

Economics primary poverty

rare pauperdom

1.1The renunciation of the right to individual ownership of property as part of a religious vow.

2The state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount: the poverty of her imagination...

It shows a complete poverty of imagination and a vast amount of callousness.
She is up against poverty of imagination, prudishness, bigotry and ladies locked into pain.
The appointment is not a disaster, though it shows a poverty of imagination.

Synonyms

scarcity, deficiency, dearth, shortage, paucity, insufficiency, inadequacy, absence, lack, want, deficit, meagreness, limitedness, restrictedness, sparseness, sparsity

rare exiguity

inferiority, mediocrity, poorness, barrenness, aridity, sterility

Origin

Middle English: from Old French poverte, from Latin paupertas, from pauper 'poor'.

poor from Middle English:
The Latin word for ‘poor’ pauper, is the base of pauper (early 16th century), poverty (Middle English), and poor. The phrase poor as a church mouse, or ‘extremely poor’, comes from the notion that a church mouse must be particularly deprived as it does not have the opportunity to find pickings from a kitchen or larder, and there are few crumbs to be found in a well-swept church. You sometimes hear a wealthy young person whose money appears to bring them no happiness described as poor little rich girl (or boy). Though he did not coin the phrase, Noël Coward certainly popularized it with his 1925 song ‘Poor Little Rich Girl’.

单词	poverty
释义	poverty /ˈpɒvəti / noun [mass noun] 1The state of being extremely poor: thousands of families are living in abject poverty... The results suggest that providing day care may be insufficient as a strategy to reduce poverty. The new kind of poverty was in the process of acquiring a revolutionary quality. Looking at this village now, it is hard to imagine the poverty that existed here 100 years ago. Synonyms penury, destitution, indigence, pennilessness, privation, deprivation, impoverishment, neediness, need, want, hardship, impecuniousness, impecuniosity, hand-to-mouth existence, beggary, pauperism, straitened circumstances, bankruptcy, insolvency; Economics primary poverty rare pauperdom 1.1The renunciation of the right to individual ownership of property as part of a religious vow. 2The state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount: the poverty of her imagination... It shows a complete poverty of imagination and a vast amount of callousness. She is up against poverty of imagination, prudishness, bigotry and ladies locked into pain. The appointment is not a disaster, though it shows a poverty of imagination. Synonyms scarcity, deficiency, dearth, shortage, paucity, insufficiency, inadequacy, absence, lack, want, deficit, meagreness, limitedness, restrictedness, sparseness, sparsity rare exiguity inferiority, mediocrity, poorness, barrenness, aridity, sterility Origin Middle English: from Old French poverte, from Latin paupertas, from pauper 'poor'. poor from Middle English: The Latin word for ‘poor’ pauper, is the base of pauper (early 16th century), poverty (Middle English), and poor. The phrase poor as a church mouse, or ‘extremely poor’, comes from the notion that a church mouse must be particularly deprived as it does not have the opportunity to find pickings from a kitchen or larder, and there are few crumbs to be found in a well-swept church. You sometimes hear a wealthy young person whose money appears to bring them no happiness described as poor little rich girl (or boy). Though he did not coin the phrase, Noël Coward certainly popularized it with his 1925 song ‘Poor Little Rich Girl’.
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