Penury
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noun.
Extreme want or poverty; destitution.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
Lack; want; scantiness.
noun.
Extreme poverty; want; indigence.
noun.
Parsimoniousness; miserliness.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
noun.
Penuriousness; miserliness.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
extreme
want
;
poverty
;
destitution
.
noun.
a lack of something; a
dearth
;
barrenness
;
insufficiency
.
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noun.
a state of extreme poverty or destitution
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
impoverishment
poorness
poverty
Hyponym
Words that are more specific
beggary
mendicancy
mendicity
Same Context
Words that are found in similar contexts
beggary
destitution
dishonor
feebleness
filth
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
bare cupboard
bare subsistence
beggarliness
beggary
deficiency