penury

pen·u·ry  (pny-r)

n.

1. Extreme want or poverty; destitution.

2. Extreme dearth; barrenness or insufficiency.

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[Middle English penurie, from Latin pnria, want.]

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penury [ˈpɛnjʊrɪ]

n

1. extreme poverty

2. extreme scarcity

[from Latin pēnūria dearth, of obscure origin]

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penury

extreme poverty or destitution. — penurious, adj.

See also: Poverty

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

penury - a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" indigence, pauperism, pauperization, need impoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions mendicancy, mendicity, beggary - the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy"

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penury

noun poverty, want, need, privation, destitution, straitened circumstances, beggary, indigence, pauperism

Translations

penury [ˈpenjʊrɪ] N → miseria f, penuria f
to live in penury → vivir en la penuria or miseria
to be reduced to penury → quedarse en la miseria

penury [ˈpɛnjəri] n → misère f

penury

n → Armut f, → Not f; in a state of penury → in Armut

penury [ˈpɛnjʊrɪ] n (frm) → indigenza