Poverty

3 definitions of poverty …………….

1.

The state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.

2.

Deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.: poverty of the soil. Synonyms: thinness, poorness, insufficiency.

3.

Scantiness; insufficiency: their efforts to stamp out disease were hampered by a poverty of medical supplies. synonyms: meagreness, inadequacy, sparseness, shortage, paucity, dearth. Antonyms: abundance, surfeit, sufficiency, bounty, glut.

 

Causes of poverty

The causes of poverty are lack of sanitation and hygiene. No water of food being born into a poor family. No education, having a bad government and not having the necessary things to live a proper daily life.