All penury synonyms
pen·u·ry
P p noun penury
- impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- abjection — an abject state or condition
- impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- aridities — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- aridity — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
- neediness — a condition of want or need; poverty; indigence.
- mendicancy — the practice of begging, as for alms.
- mendicity — mendicancy.
- exiguity — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
- beggary — extreme poverty or need
- impecuniousness — The property of being impecunious.
- homelessness — without a home: a homeless child.
- exiguousness — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
- destitution — Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
- freebooter — a person who goes about in search of plunder; pirate; buccaneer.
- misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
- indigence — seriously impoverished condition; poverty.
- necessitousness — The state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature.