Penury Synonyms

pĕnyə-rē

Words Related to Penury

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. rich
  2. grinding-poverty
  3. idleness
  4. wretchedness

Penury Sentence Examples

  • The result of his experiments was that he found himself completely impoverished, and lived in penury for the remainder of his life.

  • It's these people who are likely to face penury in old age.

  • He soon rose from penury to ease, and married a painter's beautiful daughter, Maria Vagini; she died after seven years of wedded life.

  • As the war went on the naval power of the Greeks diminished, partly owing to the penury of their treasury, and partly to the growth of piracy in the general anarchy of the Eastern Mediterranean.

  • Despite extreme penury, he then continued to study indefatigably ancient and modern languages, history and literature, finally turning his attention to mathematics and astronomy.

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