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Penury

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Extreme want or poverty; destitution.

n. Extreme dearth; barrenness or insufficiency.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. extreme want; poverty; destitution.

n. a lack of something; a dearth; barrenness; insufficiency.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.

n. Penuriousness; miserliness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Lack; want; scantiness.

n. Extreme poverty; want; indigence.

n. Parsimoniousness; miserliness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. 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

poorness poverty impoverishment

Hyponym

beggary mendicancy mendicity

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

want privation indigence destitution penuriousness miserliness poverty deficiency

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

destitution beggary squalor privation indigence insignificance starvation poverty ignominy pauperism