penury

[pen·u·ry]

Penury means extreme poverty to the point of homelessness and begging in the streets. Economic downturns, job loss, shopping sprees, and weekends at the high rollers' table in Vegas can lead to penury.

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

Noun
a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"

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

n.
Penuriousness; miserliness.

Penury

Pen"u*ry , n. [L. penuria; cf. Gr. hunger, poverty, need, one who works for his daily bread, a poor man, to work for one's daily bread, to be poor: cf. F. p'82nurie.] 1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. "A penury of military forces." Bacon.

They were exposed to hardship and penury.

It arises in neither from penury of thought.

2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

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

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