Synonyms of impoverishment

impoverishment

noun

as in poverty

the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions

the gradual loss of manufacturing jobs plunged the area into a level of impoverishment it had never known

Synonyms & Similar Words

• poverty
• misery
• poorness
• indigence
• penury
• pauperism
• destitution
• necessity
• beggary
• neediness
• deprivation
• need
• impecuniousness
• impecuniosity
• privation
• penuriousness
• wretchedness
• want
• destituteness
• bankruptcy
• exigency
• woe
• emergency
• gutter
• insolvency
• rainy day
• austerity
• pinching
• belt-tightening
• straitening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wealth
• affluence
• richness
• opulence
• prosperity
• wealthiness
• luxury