Comfort and Poverty

Opposite meaning words

Comfort noun - A feeling of ease from grief or trouble.

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Poverty is an antonym for comfort.

Poverty noun - The state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions.

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Comfort is an antonym for poverty in pennilessness topic.

material	material comfort	material poverty
utter	utter comfort	utter poverty
relative	relative comfort	relative poverty
real	real comfort	real poverty
Other adjectives: hard, constant, extreme, abject, mental, general, increasing, economic.

Ursula was orphaned when her family died of the plague and grew up in poverty, becoming desperate for any chance, however brief, of knowing wealth and comfort.

Source: Dark and Troubled Past
Each of Tevye's teenage daughters ultimately ended up with the man she wanted, but each suffered the consequences: Tzeitel lives in abject poverty with Motel, rather than the relative comfort she would have had with Lazar Wolf; Hodel winds up in Siberia and Chava is disowned.

Source: Arranged Marriage
However, dig a little deeper and you'll find that only the royal family (and perhaps a few nobles) actually lives in comfort, and everyone else lives in poverty under the oppressive hand of the Queen.

Source: Mary Suetopia

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