penury
21penury — n 1. poverty, extreme poverty, destitution, need, want; straits, straitened circumstances, beggary, pauperism, pauperage; mendicancy, mendicity; impecuniousness, insolvency, bankruptcy, inability to pay, liquidation, failure, default; privation,… …
22penury — pen·ury …
23penury — UK [ˈpenjərɪ] / US [ˈpenjʊrɪ] noun [uncountable] formal the state of being extremely poor …
24penury — pen•u•ry [[t]ˈpɛn yə ri[/t]] n. 1) extreme poverty; destitution 2) scarcity or lack; insufficiency • Etymology: 1400–50; late ME < L pēnūria; akin to Gk peîna hunger, penía poverty …
25penury — /ˈpɛnjəri / (say penyuhree) noun 1. extreme poverty; destitution. 2. dearth or insufficiency. {Middle English, from Latin pēnūria want, scarcity. Compare Greek penia poverty, need} …
26penury — n. (pl. ies) 1 destitution; poverty. 2 a lack; scarcity. Etymology: ME f. L penuria, perh. rel. to paene almost …
27in penury — index poor (underprivileged) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
28left in penury — index bankrupt Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
29poverty — poverty, indigence, penury, want, destitution, privation all denote the state of one who is poor or without enough to live upon. Poverty, the most comprehensive of these terms, typically implies such deficiency of resources that one is deprived… …
30poverty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of money Nouns 1. poverty, impecuniousness, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want, poverty line or level; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties; bad, poor, or …
