Failure and Poverty

Failure

Failure noun - A falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number.

Usage example: the failure of the potato crop had a devastating effect on the population of Ireland

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Poverty and failure are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Poverty" instead a noun "Failure".

Nearby Words: fail, failing, failed

Poverty noun - A falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number.

Usage example: a poverty of information about the new policies

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Failure and poverty are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Failure" instead a noun "Poverty".

complete	complete failure	complete poverty
relative	relative failure	relative poverty
actual	actual failure	actual poverty
real	real failure	real poverty
Other adjectives: constant, severe, massive, abject, horrible, absolute, past, apparent, impending.

In The Dresden Files, Harry considers his lover's half-conversion to a Red Court vampire and his inability to find a cure for her to be his greatest failure, driving him to near-poverty and a long Heroic B.S.O.D.

Source: My Greatest Failure
Period Piece Perpetual Poverty - Not truly poverty (not for Seibei, at least, although upstream the peasants have been literally starving after a disastrous crop failure).

Source: Film / The Twilight Samurai
Queen Sabet was broken about not fighting to keep her girls, which she considers My Greatest Failure, and the girls ended up in poverty after their adoptive mother Elin died with traders stealing their letters and a villageman stealing their allowance.

Source: Literature / Princess Academy

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