Penury

Noun

 * 1) extreme want; poverty; destitution.
 * 2) a lack of something; a dearth; barrenness; insufficiency.
 * 1) a lack of something; a dearth; barrenness; insufficiency.

Adjectives for Penury
cold; hard; frosty; tedious; unvanquishable; sordid; forgetful; utter; gripping; miserable.

Verbs for Penury
burden by—; conceal—; fear—; feign—; reduce to—; resist—; survive—; —afflicts; — aggrieves; —deprives; —distresses.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From pénurie: <  penuria:.

Translations

 * Greek:


 * Russian: нищета, беднота


 * Russian: нужда

Anagrams

 * pruney