penury

[ pen-yuh-ree ]

/ ˈpɛn yə ri /

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noun

extreme poverty; destitution.

scarcity; dearth; inadequacy; insufficiency.

Origin of penury

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin pēnūria; akin to Greek peîna hunger, penía poverty

SYNONYMS FOR penury

1 indigence, need, want.

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ANTONYMS FOR penury

1 wealth.

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Words nearby penury

penuchle, penult, penultimate, penumbra, penurious, penury, penutian, penza, penzance, penzias, peon

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Or perhaps the plague of Strawberry Quick-flavored meth that was luring children into a life of addiction and penury.

Parents Panic Over Old Fake Smarties Snorting Craze |Lizzie Crocker |January 23, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Relative obscurity and penury, her anthem claims, rule just as hard as the point-oh-oh-one percent realm of excess and access.

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Larry, it looks like traveling up the royal road you slashed through the forest of penury.

Norman Mailer vs. Everyone |Norman Mailer |February 27, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
The fact of his penury had been like a wet blanket upon him all day.

The Man Who Lost Himself |H. De Vere Stacpoole

There was an end of all his peace, all his capacity for labour, his patient endurance of penury.

New Grub Street |George Gissing
Through which the same frost troops are sighing, Churlishly gloweth the charcoal flame, While a man lies there in penury dying.

Victor Roy, A Masonic Poem |Harriet Annie Wilkins
Never were penury of knowledge and vulgarity of sentiment so happily disguised.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes |Samuel Johnson
We did our best to help them out of our own pittance; but to all of us it was like falling from affluence to penury.

Hurricane Hurry |W.H.G. Kingston

British Dictionary definitions for penury

penury

/ (ˈpɛnjʊrɪ) /

noun

extreme poverty

extreme scarcity

Word Origin for penury

C15: from Latin pēnūria dearth, of obscure origin

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