antipoverty
adjective
antipoverty is an adjective meaning “That serves to alleviate poverty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-P-O-V-E-R-T-Y and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antipoverty mean?
adjective
- 1
That serves to alleviate poverty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antipoverty?
Antipoverty has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antipoverty?
Antipoverty appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antipoverty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that serves to alleviate poverty:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antipobreza |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antipoverty come from?
From anti- + poverty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).