n.
1.
Indigence, penury, want, destitution, need, necessity, privation, neediness, distress, straitened circumstances.
2.
Beggary, mendicancy, pauperism.
3.
Need, lack, want, deficiency, scantiness, sparingness, meagreness, jejuneness.
4.
Paucity, exiguity, poorness, smallness.
5.
Barrenness, sterility, unproductiveness, unfruitfulness.