penury
penury
nounDefinition of PENURY
the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions <lived in a time when single women like herself faced a lifetime of genteel penury>
Synonyms beggary, destituteness, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, penuriousness, penury, poorness, want
Related Words gutter, misery, woe, wretchedness; exigency; emergency, rainy day; austerity, deprivation, privation; bankruptcy, insolvency; belt-tightening, pinching, straitening
Near Antonyms luxury, prosperity
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