Synonyms for beggary
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Noun
1. Poverty
poverty, want, mendicancy, begging, destitution, penury, indigence, pauperism, moneylessness, privation
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Definitions
- n. 1
The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty.
Forms
- Plural
- beggaries → poverties, wants, mendicancies, beggings…
Example sentences
- poverty The issue of Third World poverty is very pressing.
- begging Yanni and Skura were both begging for forgiveness.
- destitution We fight to pull ourselves out of destitution.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| beggary | steady | |
| poverty | rising | |
| begging | rising | |
| destitution | steady | |
| mendicancy | steady | |
| mendicity | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- want1
- 6 letters
- penury3
- 7 letters
- poverty3, begging2
- 9 letters
- privation3, indigence, pauperism, mendicity
- 10 letters
- mendicancy
- 11 letters
- destitution4
- 13 letters
- moneylessness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (penury3 = 3 syllables).