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
    • Word Usage
    "That's Gordon "prudence" Brown one of whose first acts as Chancellor was to filch money from pension schemes leaving many people with private pensions looking forward to a retirement in penury, whilst he will retire on a nice fat publicly funded final salary scheme."
    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  
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