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penury 音标拼音: [p'ɛnjʊri] n. 贫困,贫穷 贫困,贫穷 penury n 1: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" [synonym: {indigence}, {need}, {penury}, {pauperism}, {pauperization}] 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['e]nurie.] 1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. "A penury of military forces." --Bacon. [1913 Webster] They were exposed to hardship and penury. --Sprat. [1913 Webster] It arises in neither from penury of thought. --Landor. [1913 Webster] 2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 27 Moby Thesaurus words for "penury":
bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, deprivation, destitution, empty purse, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, lack, mendicancy, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, pauperization, pinch, poorness, privation, want
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