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[ pen-yuh-ree ] / ˈpɛn yə ri / SEE SYNONYMS FOR penury ON THESAURUS.COM
nounextreme poverty; destitution. scarcity; dearth; inadequacy; insufficiency. Origin of penury1400–50; late Middle English <Latin pēnūria; akin to Greek peîna hunger, penía poverty SYNONYMS FOR penurySEE SYNONYMS FOR penury ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR penurySEE ANTONYMS FOR penury ON THESAURUS.COM Words nearby penurypenuchle, penult, penultimate, penumbra, penurious, penury, Penutian, Penza, Penzance, Penzias, peon Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for penuryOr perhaps the plague of Strawberry Quick-flavored meth that was luring children into a life of addiction and penury. Parents Panic Over Old Fake Smarties Snorting Craze|Lizzie Crocker|January 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST Relative obscurity and penury, her anthem claims, rule just as hard as the point-oh-oh-one percent realm of excess and access. Duck! Reality TV Returns Us to the Dark Age of Tribal Warfare|James Poulos|December 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST Larry, it looks like traveling up the royal road you slashed through the forest of penury. Norman Mailer vs. Everyone|Norman Mailer|February 27, 2009|DAILY BEAST The fact of his penury had been like a wet blanket upon him all day. The Man Who Lost Himself|H. De Vere Stacpoole
There was an end of all his peace, all his capacity for labour, his patient endurance of penury. New Grub Street|George Gissing Through which the same frost troops are sighing, Churlishly gloweth the charcoal flame, While a man lies there in penury dying. Victor Roy, A Masonic Poem|Harriet Annie Wilkins Never were penury of knowledge and vulgarity of sentiment so happily disguised. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes|Samuel Johnson We did our best to help them out of our own pittance; but to all of us it was like falling from affluence to penury. Hurricane Hurry|W.H.G. Kingston
British Dictionary definitions for penury
nounextreme poverty extreme scarcity Word Origin for penuryC15: from Latin pēnūria dearth, of obscure origin Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to penuryprivation, destitution, dearth, indigence, barrenness, insufficiency, scantiness, need |