Poverty.

Ill-success; adversity, poverty.

Need, want, poverty. Obsolete.

Misery, distress, hardship; adversity, poverty.

Lack of the necessities of life; poverty, need, want. Now historical.

The condition of having little or no wealth or few material possessions; indigence, destitution. Cf. poor, adj. 1.

Low rank or status; humble, poor, or lowly state. Formerly also: †degradation, abasement (obsolete). Cf. highness, n. 2a.

A state of destitution; lack of the means of subsistence or of basic necessities; extreme poverty, indigence.

Wealth.

Want of wealth or possessions; indigence, poverty.

Lack of prosperity.

Without specification of what is lacking: want of food or other necessities; privation, poverty. Obsolete.

Poor people as a class; the poor.

Hardship, distress; privation, straitened circumstances. (Cf. 1g) archaic.

The state or fact of being poor; poverty (literal and figurative).

Evil plight or condition; ill-fortune; trouble, distress. Also (in early use): need, want, poverty. Obsolete.

= misease, n.1

The state or condition of being needy; poverty, want, indigence. Frequently with reference to spiritual or emotional needs.

Scottish in later use. A condition in which help is needed, or there is a lack of some necessary thing; a state of difficulty or distress; esp. a…

spec. Want of the means of subsistence; straitened circumstances; poverty, penury, destitution.

The condition of being slenderly or inadequately provided (const. of). Also absol., straitened condition with regard to means of living or…

Poverty; low social status or position. Esp. in of nought: out of poverty or insignificance. Obsolete.

Penury, lack of comforts or necessaries.

As a mass noun (frequently with possessive adjective): what is necessarily required; necessaries, needs. Now rare.

The condition of being destitute; hardship, poverty, need.

= poverty, n.

Smallness or slenderness of income or revenue; poorness, poverty. Obsolete.

The state of lacking the necessaries of life; penury; destitution. Also: †the condition of lacking food; starvation (obsolete).

Want, poverty. Obsolete.

An occasion or time of need, a difficulty. Obsolete.

In plural. Instances of destitution. Cf. hardship, n. 2a.

= penury, n. 1. rare.

The condition of being poor; poverty.

Political, social, or pecuniary weakness.

figurative. Meagreness; slightness, slenderness, weakness, poverty.

The condition or quality of being lean; thinness; meagreness; poverty (of land); barrenness; etc.

The state of being in want; indigence, straitened circumstances. Also, the condition of wanting food; famine, starvation.

Extreme poverty or destitution, imagined as a physical destination; beggary.

Absence of resources; indigence, poverty.

Deprivation, poverty; famine. Obsolete.

Want of provisions; destitution.

Neediness, poverty.

Leanness.

Want or dearth of something; poverty. Now rare.

spec. Want of the means of subsistence; = indigence, n. 2.

Neediness.

The state or condition of being necessitous; neediness; necessity.

Meagreness, poverty.

straitened circumstances: inadequate means of living, poverty. Also straitened income, straitened means.

Lack of opulence; absence of wealth or grandeur.

an imaginary street where people in difficulties (esp. financial ones) are supposed to reside; (hence) the fact of being in a difficult position…

Low rank, condition, or worth; abjectness; insignificance; poverty.

(un-, prefix1 affix 6. Cf. unwealthy, adj.)

effective poverty due to waste, inefficiency, or some other drain on resources, rather than to insufficiency of means.

an imaginary street where people in financial difficulty are supposed to reside.