All impoverishment synonyms

noun impoverishment

• debilitation — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
• hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
• insolvency — the condition of being insolvent; bankruptcy.
• privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
• famine — extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.
• depletion — a depleting or being depleted
• scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
• starvation — the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.
• underdevelop — to develop (something) short of the required amount: to underdevelop film.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
• dearth — If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it.
• vacancy — the state of being vacant; emptiness.
• deficiency — Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
• want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
• self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
• bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
• inadequacy — Also, inadequateness [in-ad-i-kwit-nis] /ɪnˈæd ɪ kwɪt nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being inadequate; insufficiency.
• indigence — seriously impoverished condition; poverty.
• reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
• deficit — A deficit is the amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, especially the amount by which the total money received is less than the total money spent.
• meagerness — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
• penniless — without any money whatsoever; totally impoverished; destitute.
• destitution — Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
• paucity — smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
• poorness — having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
• necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
• debt — A debt is a sum of money that you owe someone.
• impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
• barrenness — not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile: a barren woman.
• neediness — a condition of want or need; poverty; indigence.
• pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
• penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
• shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
• beggary — extreme poverty or need
• penury — extreme poverty; destitution.
• abjection — an abject state or condition
• aridity — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
• pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
• devitalize — to lower or destroy the vitality of; make weak or lifeless
• attenuation — the act of attenuating or the state of being attenuated
• enfeeblement — The act of enfeebling; debilitation, enervation or devitalization.
• exhaustion — A state of extreme physical or mental fatigue.
• impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
• necessitous — destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent: to aid a necessitous young mother.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.