Synonyms of the word

deprivation

• n. (countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some…
• n. (uncountable) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
• n. (countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
• n. (followed by “of”) lack.

disadvantage

• n. A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
• n. A setback or handicap.
• n. Loss; detriment; hindrance.
• v. (transitive) To place at a disadvantage.

impoverishment

• n. The action of impoverishing someone.
• n. The state of being impoverished.

loss

• n. an instance of losing, such as a defeat.
• n. The result of an alteration in a function or characteristic of the body, or of its previous integrity.
• n. the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone, particularly in death.
• n. (in the plural) casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict.
• n. (financial) the sum an entity loses on balance.
• n. destruction, ruin.
• n. (engineering) electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
• v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost.

neediness

• n. The characteristic of being needy.

poorness

• n. The quality of being poor.
• n. poverty.

poverty

• n. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
• n. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness.

privation

• n. (philosophy) The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the…
• n. The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
• n. The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation.

want

• v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
• v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
• v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
• v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
• n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
• n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
• n. (uncountable) Poverty.
• n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
• n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.