PENURY
Dictionary entry overview: What does penury mean? • PENURY (noun)
The noun PENURY has 1 sense:
1. a state of extreme poverty or destitution
Familiarity information: PENURY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PENURY (noun)
Meaning:
A state of extreme poverty or destitution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
indigence; pauperism; pauperization; penury; need
Context examples:
their indigence appalled him / a general state of need exists among the homeless
Hypernyms ("penury" is a kind of...):
impoverishment; poorness; poverty (the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "penury"):
beggary; mendicancy; mendicity (the state of being a beggar or mendicant)
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