Penury

Definition: Penury

Penury

Noun

1. A state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "penury" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Penury

Poverty

Noun: poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door.

Crosswords: Penury

Books

• From penury to plenty : developement of oil rich Brunei, 1906 to present (reference)

• Power and Penury : Government, Technology and Science in Philip II's Spain (reference)

• The Short Stories of Detlev Von Liliencron: Passion, Penury, Patriotism (Studies in German Language and Literature , Vol 20) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

God, when he gave the world in common to all mankind, commanded man also to labour, and the penury of his condition required it of him. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Afrikaans

behoeftigheid (destitution, distress, indigence, need). (various references)

Albanian

varfëri (beggary, hardship, indigence, infertility, manginess, misery, necessity, need, pauperism, poorness, poverty, squalor, want), skamje (destitution, indigence, necessity, need, poverty), mjerim (adversity, destitution, grief, hardship, misery, misfortune, pauperism, squalor, woe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فقر (beggar, destitution, impoverish, indigence, lack, need, neediness, pauperism, poorness, poverty, ruin, want), ‏ندرة (drought, famine, paucity, poverty, rareness, rarity, scarceness, tightness), ‏شحيح (mean, mingy, miserly, piker, scant, scarce, sordid, stingy), ‏بؤس (misery, poverty, squalor, unhappiness, wretchedness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сиромашия (pauperism), крайна бедност, немотия (indigence), недоимък (dearth, insufficiency, lack), липса (absence, default, defect, deficiency, failure, lack, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, stringency, ullage, want). (various references)

Czech

nuznost, nedostatek (absence, defect, deficiency, deficit, demerit, drawback, failing, failure, fault, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, non-availability, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, want), chudoba (poorness, poverty). (various references)

Danish

fattigdomsfrygt (fear of penury). (various references)

Dutch

pauperisme (destitution, distress, indigence, need), behoeftigheid (destitution, distress, indigence, need). (various references)

Esperanto

senhaveco (destitution, distress, indigence, need). (various references)

French

parcimonieux, pénurie, misère, ladre, indigence. (various references)

German

geizige (costively). (various references)

Greek 

ένδεια (destitution, indigence, necessitousness, needfulness, neediness, poverty, want), πενιά (pauperism). (various references)

Hebrew 

עו� י (indigence, meanness, misery, pauperism, poorness, poverty, privation, want), �"וחק (density, duress, exigency, importunate, pressure, squash, stress), ריש (destitution, poverty), צמצום (brevity, condensation, contraction, dearth, limitation, reduction, restriction, retrenchment, scantiness). (various references)

Hungarian

nyomorúság (affliction, beggary, distress, extremity, grief, misery, poverty), szegénység (beggary, destitution, gutter, indigence, necessity, need, pauperism, pauperization, poorness, poverty), nyomor (destitution, extremity, misery, necessity, poverty, privation, squalor, want), ínség (dearth, distress, esurience, esuriency, famine, necessity, need, pauperization, poverty). (various references)

Italian

penuria (distress, misery, trouble), indigenza (indigence, need, pauperism, poverty). (various references)

Pig Latin

enurypay.(various references)

Portuguese

pobreza (bareness, destitution, indigence, narrow circumstances, penurity, poorness, poverty, sorriness), penúria (destitution, famine, paucity, penurity, scarcity, shortage), miséria (affliction, distress, misery, penurity, poverty, privation, sorriness, squalor, want), indigência (destitution, misery, penurity, poorness, poverty), falta (absence, default, deficiency, fail, failing, fault, forfeit, foul, guilt, lack, lacuna, miss, mistake, need, non-attendance, omission, paucity, penurity, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, slip, want, wantage), carência (absence, deficiency, failure, famine, lack, miss, need, negation, penurity, poorness, scarcity, shortage, stringency, want). (various references)

Romanian

penurie, sãrãcie mare, lipsã (absence, blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, drawback, failure, fault, gap, hardship, imperfection, lack, minus, mistake, necessity, neediness, out, paucity, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stinginess, stringency, vice, want). (various references)

Russian 

крайняя бедность (pauperism), нужда; бедность; недостаток, недостаток (blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, failure, fault, flaw, lack, letdown, minus, objection, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vice, want), бедность (indigence, lean purse, light purse, misery, poorness, poverty, slender purse, tenuity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oskudica (dearth, destitution, lack, necessity, need, privation, scarceness, scarcity, want, wantage). (various references)

Spanish

penuria, indigencia (destitution, distress, indigence, misery, necessity, need, poverty, want). (various references)

Swedish

armod (beggary, destitution, neediness, poverty). (various references)

Turkish

para sıkıntısı (monetary pressure), yoksulluk (bareness, calamity, destitution, hardship, misery, need, neediness, pauperism, poorness, poverty, privation), yokluk (absence, absentness, dearth, exiguity, failure, famine, hardship, lack, neediness, nonappearance, non-appearance, nonexistence, non-existence, nudity, poverty, privation, shortage, Strait, straits, tightness, want), kıtlık (dearth, drought, exiguity, failure, famine, paucity, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, slimness, sparseness, sparsity), cimrilik (closeness, costiveness, illiberality, manginess, meanness, miserliness, nearness, parsimony, sordidness, stinginess). (various references)

Ukrainian

недостача (absence, dearth, failure, lack, need, non-availability, poverty, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, want), злидні (beggarhood, beggarliness, beggary, destitution, distress, indigence, misery, need, neediness, privation), бідність (bareness, humility, meanness, misery, necessity, need, poorness, poverty, shabbiness, tenuity, underprivilege). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cảnh thiếu thốn (destitution, privation), cảnh túng thiếu (neediness), cảnh cơ h� n tình trạng khan hiếm. (various references)

penuria, penuria, penurium. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Penury" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paruyr, Penbury, pener, penery, penrhys, Pentrwyn, pentry, Pentrych, penuary, pianure, pienary, Pinbury, Ponnary, poury, Renory. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: prune.

-2 letters: prey, puny, pure, pyre, rune.

-3 letters: ern, pen, per, pry, pun, pur, pye, rep, rue, run, rye, urn, yen, yep, yup.

-4 letters: en, er, ne, nu, pe, re, un, up, ye.

+2 letters: underpay, unpretty, unripely.

+3 letters: cyberpunk, pecuniary, prudently, pruriency, purveying, truepenny, underpays, underplay, unsprayed.

+4 letters: corpulency, counterspy, cyberpunks, keypuncher, neuropathy, perigynous, poultrymen, pruriently, purveyance, putrefying, repugnancy, superlying, supernally, suspensory, underplays.

+5 letters: corpulently, counterplay, counterploy, hyperimmune, importunely, imprudently, insuperably, keypunchers, opportunely, pecuniarily, penuriously, perfunctory, polynuclear, ponderously, presumingly, purveyances, reoccupying, repugnantly, repurifying, resupplying, superagency, superhyping, superlunary, typefounder, underpaying, underplayed, undersupply.