absence
adversity
bare cupboard
bare subsistence
beggarliness
beggary
dearth
defectiveness
deficiency
deficit
deprivation
drought
empty purse
famine
grinding poverty
gripe
hand-to-mouth existence
homelessness
impecuniousness
imperfection
impoverishment
incompleteness
indigence
lack
mendicancy
misfortune
moneylessness
necessitousness
necessity
need
neediness
omission
pauperism
pauperization
penury
pinch
poverty
privation
shortage
shortcoming
shortfall
starvation
want
wantage
poorness
destitute
anarchy
banishment
bankruptcy
debasement
depravity
desolation
despondency
discouragement
helplessness
humiliation
insignificance
misery
nakedness
prostration
stagnation
wretchedness