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Thesaurus: penury

Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.

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  1. n. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
  2. n. Penuriousness; miserliness.
  3. n. a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  4. 1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. "A penury of military forces." Bacon. They were exposed to hardship and penury. Sprat. It arises in neither from penury of thought. Landor. 2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
  5. n:100 n a state of extreme poverty or destitution