Penury synonyms

pĕn'yə-rē

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poverty (related)
Poverty is the state of being poor, having little money or being in need of a specific quality.
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grinding-poverty (related)
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destitution
A deprivation or lack; a deficiency.
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barrenness
The property of being barren; the property of not supporting life.
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dearth
Any scarcity or lack
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indigence
The condition of being indigent
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privation
The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
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scantiness
(Uncountable) The quality of being scanty.
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beggary
Beggarly appearance.
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impecuniosity
The state of being impecunious; impecuniousness
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impecuniousness
The property of being impecunious.
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impoverishment
The state of being impoverished.
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neediness
The state of being needy
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pennilessness
The state or quality of being penniless.
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penuriousness
The quality of being penurious.
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want
The condition or quality of lacking something usual or necessary:
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rich (related)
A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
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pauperism
The state of being a pauper; poverty
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pauperization
The act or process of reducing to pauperism.
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idleness (related)
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wretchedness (related)
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need
A condition of poverty or misfortune:
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bankruptcy
A federal judicial procedure by which most debts owed by a person or entity are extinguished or reduced or the payment of which are delayed.
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insufficiency
Inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally:
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Find another word for penury. In this page you can discover 24 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for penury, like: poverty, grinding-poverty, destitution, barrenness, dearth, indigence, privation, scantiness, beggary, impecuniosity and impecuniousness.
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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.

  • 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.

  • But during the greater part of his reign he was the puppet of the magnates and kept in such penury that he was often obliged to pawn his jewels to get proper food and clothing.

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