penury

penury
n
1. poverty, extreme poverty, destitution, need, want; straits, straitened circumstances, beggary, pauperism, pauperage; mendicancy, mendicity; impecuniousness, insolvency, bankruptcy, inability to pay, liquidation, failure, default; privation, deprivation.
2. dearth, absence, scarcity, scarceness; inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, deficiency, shortage, shortness, stint, not enough to go around; scantiness, paucity, exiguity; meagerness, rareness, sparseness, seldomness, fewness, poorness, barrenness; depletion, exhaustion, emptiness, vacuity.

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  • Penury — Pen u*ry, n. [L. penuria; cf. Gr. ? hunger, ? poverty, need, ? one who works for his daily bread, a poor man, ? to work for one s daily bread, to be poor: cf. F. p[ e]nurie.] 1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • penury — index bankruptcy, dearth, deficiency, indigence, need (deprivation), poverty, privation Burton s Legal Thesa …   Law dictionary

  • penury — early 15c., from M.Fr. pénurie, from L. penuria want, need, related to paene scarcely …   Etymology dictionary

  • penury — *poverty, indigence, want, destitution, privation Analogous words: *need, necessity, exigency: pinch, strait, pass, *juncture Antonyms: luxury …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • penury — ► NOUN ▪ extreme poverty. ORIGIN Latin penuria …   English terms dictionary

  • penury — [pen′yo͞o rē, pen′yərē] n. [ME pennury < L penuria, want, scarcity < paene, scarcely: see PASSION] lack of money, property, or necessities; extreme poverty; destitution SYN. POVERTY …   English World dictionary

  • penury — [[t]pe̱njʊri[/t]] N UNCOUNT Penury is the state of being extremely poor. [FORMAL] He was brought up in penury, without education …   English dictionary

  • penury — [ penjʊrɪ] to commit penury …   Combinatory dictionary

  • penury — pen|u|ry [ˈpenjuri] n [U] [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: penuria] formal the state of being very poor = ↑poverty ▪ He died in penury in 1644. >penurious [pıˈnjuəriəs US ˈnur ] adj …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • penury — noun (U) formal the state of being very poor; poverty: families living in penury …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • penury — noun Dylan was oblivious to his brother s wretched state of penury Syn: extreme poverty, destitution, pennilessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, pauperism, privation, beggary …   Thesaurus of popular words

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