dire poverty

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• poverty — noun 1 (U) the situation or experience of being poor: dire/abject/grinding poverty (=very bad poverty): Thousands of children live in dire poverty. 2 the poverty line/level the income below which a person or a family is officially considered to… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• poverty — pov|er|ty W3 [ˈpɔvəti US ˈpa:vərti] n [Date: 1100 1200; : Old French; Origin: poverté, from Latin paupertas, from pauper; POOR] 1.) [U] the situation or experience of being poor →↑poor, impoverished ↑impoverished ▪ Millions of elderly people live …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• dire — [[t]da͟ɪ͟ə(r)[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (emphasis) Dire is used to emphasize how serious or terrible a situation or event is. The government looked as if it would split apart, with dire consequences for domestic peace... He was in dire need… …   English dictionary

• dire — adjective (direr; direst) Etymology: Latin dirus; akin to Greek deinos terrifying, Sanskrit dveṣṭi he hates Date: 1565 1. a. exciting horror < dire suffering > b. dismal …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Poverty in South Asia — ▪ 1998 by H.Y. Sharada Prasad       The South Asian region, which comprises India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Maldives, in 1997 accounted for one fifth of the world s population, two thirds of its absolute poor, and one… …   Universalium

• poverty — poverty, indigence, penury, want, destitution, privation all denote the state of one who is poor or without enough to live upon. Poverty, the most comprehensive of these terms, typically implies such deficiency of resources that one is deprived… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Poverty and Nobility — Directed by Mario Mattoli Produced by Dino De Laurentiis Carlo …   Wikipedia

• poverty-stricken — [adj] in great need; financially poor bad off*, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, broke*, destitute, dirt poor*, distressed, down and out*, hard up*, impencunious, impoverished, indigent, in dire circumstances, in want, moneyless, necessitous,… …   New thesaurus

• poverty — n. 1) to breed poverty (illiteracy breeds poverty) 2) to eliminate, eradicate, wipe out poverty 3) abject, dire, extreme, grinding, severe poverty 4) in poverty (to live in grinding poverty) * * * [ pɒvətɪ] dire eradicate extreme grinding severe… …   Combinatory dictionary

• dire — adjective 1 extremely serious, bad or terrible: He was in dire trouble and he knew it. | That makes the situation sound dire. | in dire need/poverty: The country was in dire need of financial aid. | dire consequences: Increasing fuel prices will… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium