Meaning

2 senses
  1. (contrastive, idiomatic, usually)A poor or underprivileged person.

    a person with few or no possessions

  2. (idiomatic, uncommon)One who does not have some (contextually specified) thing.

Forms

plural: have-nots
Singularhave-not
Pluralhave-nots

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person with few or no possessions:poor person

Antonyms

1 antonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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