penury Definition

pauperism, indigence, need, destitution, squalor, wretchedness, poverty, misery, pittance, hardship, deprivation, scarcity, paucity, distress, dearth, shortfall, shortage, lack, want, emergency, impoverishment, privation, beggary, pauperization, despair, starvation, pauperisation, destitute, servitude, backwardness, hopelessness, despondency, idleness, immiseration, ignominy, drudgery, agony, toil, oblivion, purposelessness, pittances, pennilessness, voicelessness, breadline, zamindari, zamindars, prodigality, serfdom, gerontocracy, mendicants, aristocracies, maharajahs, abyss, peasantry, allurements, poorhouses, improvidence, irrelevance, desuetude, kulaks, slothfulness, obscurity, reclusion, peonage, decrepitude, ghastliness, ruination, petit bourgeois, despond, despondence, dotage, anomie, commoners, mundanity, outcaste, beggar, welfarism, usurer, nothingness, zamindar, deracination, enfeeblement, unwept, sullenness, unfortunates, spinsterhood, penal servitude, pelf, opulence, hovels, atavism, mediocrity, stagnation, dispair, issueless, ostracism, mendicancy, unpunctuality, dispauperize, gentlefolk,