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In a lot of the really impoverished areas of Johannesburg you see these packets of cheesy puffs which are like 6 feet long and the width of a basketball, and they're transparent and they have like 10,000 cheesy puffs in them, and you can buy that for like 50 cents. It's kind of a weird treat that you'd see people having in the townships.
Neill Blomkamp

Meaning of "impoverished" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IMPOVERISHED

impoverished  [ɪmˈpɒvərɪʃt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IMPOVERISHED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Impoverished is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES IMPOVERISHED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

impoverished

Poverty

Poverty is general scarcity or dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the deprivation of basic human needs, which commonly includes food, water, sanitation, clothing, shelter, health care and education. Relative poverty is defined contextually as economic inequality in the location or society in which people live. After the industrial revolution, mass production in factories made production goods increasingly less expensive and more accessible. Of more importance is the modernization of agriculture, such as fertilizers, to provide enough yield to feed the population. The supply of basic needs can be restricted by constraints on government services such as corruption, tax avoidance, debt and loan conditionalities and by the brain drain of health care and educational professionals. Strategies of increasing income to make basic needs more affordable typically include welfare, economic freedoms, and providing financial services. Poverty reduction is a major goal and issue for many international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank. The World Bank estimated 1.

Definition of impoverished in the English dictionary

The definition of impoverished in the dictionary is made poor or with diminished quality of life. Other definition of impoverished is deprive of fertility.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMPOVERISHED


accomplished
əˈkɒmplɪʃt
astonished
əˈstɒnɪʃt
cherished
ˈtʃɛrɪʃt
diminished
dɪˈmɪnɪʃt
distinguished
dɪˈstɪŋɡwɪʃt
established
ɪˈstæblɪʃt
finished
ˈfɪnɪʃt
furnished
ˈfɜːnɪʃt
ill-nourished
ˌɪlˈnʌrɪʃt
malnourished
mælˈnʌrɪʃt
perished
ˈpɛrɪʃt
polished
ˈpɒlɪʃt
undernourished
ˌʌndəˈnʌrɪʃt
unfinished
ʌnˈfɪnɪʃt
unfurnished
ʌnˈfɜːnɪʃt
unnourished
ʌnˈnʌrɪʃt
unperished
ʌnˈpɛrɪʃt
unpublished
ˌʌnˈpʌblɪʃt
vanished
ˈvænɪʃt
well-nourished
ˌwelˈnʌrɪʃt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IMPOVERISHED

impostumate
impostumation
impostume
imposture
imposturous
impot
impotence
impotency
impotent
impotently
impotentness
impound
impoundable
impoundage
impounder
impoundment
impoverish
impoverisher
impoverishment
impower

WORDS THAT END LIKE IMPOVERISHED

anguished
blemished
burnished
comfortably-furnished
dished
famished
half-finished
in the shed
long-established
semifinished
unaccomplished
unblemished
undiminished
undistinguished
unpolished
unpunished
untarnished
unvarnished
well-established
well-finished
well-furnished

Synonyms and antonyms of impoverished in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «IMPOVERISHED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «impoverished» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of impoverished

Translation of «impoverished» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IMPOVERISHED

Find out the translation of impoverished to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of impoverished from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «impoverished» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

贫困
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

empobrecida
570 millions of speakers

English

impoverished
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गरीब
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فقرا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бедных
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

empobrecida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দরিদ্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

appauvri
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Miskin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verarmt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

貧しい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가난한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Impoverished
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nghèo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வறிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गरीब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yoksul
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

impoverito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zubożały
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

бідних
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sărăcit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξαθλιωμένη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verarmde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

utarmade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fattig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of impoverished

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPOVERISHED»

The term «impoverished» is quite widely used and occupies the 37.575 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPOVERISHED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about impoverished

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10 QUOTES WITH «IMPOVERISHED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word impoverished.
1
Robert Adams
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
2
Roland Barthes
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
3
Frederic Bastiat
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
4
Neill Blomkamp
In a lot of the really impoverished areas of Johannesburg you see these packets of cheesy puffs which are like 6 feet long and the width of a basketball, and they're transparent and they have like 10,000 cheesy puffs in them, and you can buy that for like 50 cents. It's kind of a weird treat that you'd see people having in the townships.
5
Jane Chen
I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.
6
Ivica Dacic
How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?
7
Angela Davis
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
8
Chris Gabrieli
Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.
9
Niger Innis
We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people.
10
John Legend
When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMPOVERISHED»

Discover the use of impoverished in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to impoverished and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Enriched and impoverished environments: effects on brain and ...
"Enriched and Impoverished Environments: Effects on Brain and" "Behaviour" is the most recent review of the active area of neuronal plasticity.
Michael J. Renner, Mark R. Rosenzweig, 1987
2
Impoverished Miss, Convenient Wife
Wealthy landowner Simon Clare shuns Northumbrian society.
Michelle Styles, 2011
3
Brooding Billionaire, Impoverished Princess (Mills & Boon ...
Claimed... Billionaire Alex Matthews’s sights are set on penniless ‘ice’ Princess Serina of Montevel.
Robyn Donald, 2010
4
Impoverished State of Mind: Thinking Outside Da Block
Being impoverished is more than just a socioeconomic status; it is a state of mind.
Torri Stuckey, 2012
5
Impoverished Democracy: Economic Inequality, Residential ...
My core findings are that increasing economic inequality and segregation since 1970 have contributed to the decline of voter participation in segregated low-income neighborhoods and the simultaneous increase of voter participation in ...
Amy Melissa Widestrom, Syracuse University. Graduate School, Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 2008
6
Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an ...
Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves—their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scholarship, among other things—as the progenitors of the crisis, and call for a return to “academic ...
Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, Bruce S. Thornton, 2014
7
Impoverished Princess
Before the impoverished princess realizes, she's drowning in Alex's glacial–blue eyes and…waking up in his king–size bed! She thinks Alex is her Prince Charming, but has he led her astray under false pretences?
Robyn Donald, 2011
8
The Growth Illu$ion: How Economic Growth Has Enriched the ...
List of Graphs and IllustrationsviiAcknowledgmentsixForeword by Edward GoldsmithxiIntroduction11 Quality or Quantity?5Politicians promise to raise the standard of living.
R. J. Douthwaite, 1999
9
New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics, and ...
This broader view allows for a more comprehensive approach to the study of the African diaspora. The volume provides an overview of African diaspora studies and features as a major concern a rigorous interrogation of "identity.
Judith Goode, Jeff Maskovsky, 2001
10
Charles Honorton and the Impoverished State of Skepticism: ...
In this work, twelve of his colleagues, themselves leaders in the field, describe, discuss and reflect on Honorton's work and significance to parapsychology.
K. Ramakrishna Rao, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMPOVERISHED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term impoverished is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Reconstruction of R404 road provides employment for impoverished
The R105m reconstruction of the R404 road in Blanco has had a positive economic impact an the poor and unemployed of surrounding ... «The New Age Online, Jul 15»
2
Volunteers Journey to Help Impoverished Girls in N China's Shanxi …
Some 120 volunteers set off from Beijing to Lüliang City in north China's Shanxi Province on July 15 to offer advice to help local girls achieve ... «Women of China, Jul 15»
3
Govt launches new aid campaign for impoverished mothers
Back to Main Page. Govt launches new aid campaign for impoverished mothers. Govt launches new aid campaign for impoverished mothers. «Thailand National News Bureau, Jul 15»
4
Engineering students create prosthetic limbs for impoverished
Since its development in 2003, LIMBS, an international nonprofit organization headquartered at UTEP, has been working with students to ... «The Prospector, Jul 15»
5
Arvind Kejriwal appeals for donations for 'impoverished' AAP
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday appealed for donations for the Aam Aadmi Party, claiming that the political ... «The Asian Age, Jul 15»
6
Solidarity and Survival in Impoverished Greece: A View from the …
Doing research in Greece these past five months since the January elections, and especially during the week since the referendum was ... «College of the Atlantic News, Jul 15»
7
Francis burnishes credentials as unique pope touring impoverished
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — On his weeklong swing through South America, Pope Francis burnished his credentials as a new kind of pontiff, ... «Newser, Jul 15»
8
Xinjiang boosts employment in impoverished areas
URUMQI, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has launched 794 projects to boost employment in its ... «Shanghai Daily, Jul 15»
9
Impoverished tribe struggles to stop surge in teen suicides
But a recent string of seven suicides by teenagers has shaken this impoverished community and sent tribal leaders on an urgent mission to ... «Yankton Daily Press, Jul 15»
10
Two impoverished schools get a R300 000 lift-off
They are both situated in Ward 5, one of the most impoverished parts of Orange Farm, where the majority of youths do not have matric and lack ... «Joburg, Jul 15»

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