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Word | Penury |
a state of extreme poverty or destitution; their indigence appalled him; a general state of need exists among the homeless / Absence of resources / severe poverty; indigence; stinginess / extreme poverty; destitution. / the state of being very poor : extreme poverty, | |
Usage | ⇒ I was brought up in penury in my childhood ⇒ When his pension fund failed, George feared he would end his days in penury. ⇒ lived in a time when single women like herself faced a lifetime of genteel penury ⇒ he died in a state of virtual penury |
Synonyms | indigence, poverty, destitution, need, want, pauperism, neediness, privation, beggary, impecuniousness, lack, necessity, pauperization, bankruptcy, poorness, misery, dearth, deprivation, distress, impoverishment, |
Antonyms | affluence, wealth, luxury, abundance, bounty, copiousness, cornucopia, fortune, lavishness, liberality, opulence, overabundance, adequacy, amplitude, asset, assets, attendance, avalanche, balloon, bigheartedness, |
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