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penurynoun the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessionslived in a time when single women like herself faced a lifetime of genteel penury beggary, destituteness, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, penuriousness, poorness, poverty, want gutter, misery, woe, wretchednessexigencyemergency, rainy dayausterity, deprivation, privationbankruptcy, insolvencybelt-tightening, pinching, straitening affluence, opulence, richness, wealth, wealthiness luxury, prosperity poverty, indigence, penury, want, destitution mean the state of one with insufficient resources.poverty may cover a range from extreme want of necessities to an absence of material comforts.the extreme poverty of the slum dwellers indigence implies seriously straitened circumstances.the indigence of her years as a graduate student penury suggests a cramping or oppressive lack of money.a catastrophic illness that condemned them to years of penury want and destitution imply extreme poverty that threatens life itself through starvation or exposure.lived in a perpetual state of want the widespread destitution in countries beset by famine in the 14th century |