Extreme poverty; very poor. Example: he was cursed with penury.
Penury is the state of extreme poverty.
Somalia peoples are suffer from penury.
Sadly, I was slipping into unwanted penury.
the lottery winner went from penury to wealth overnight.
The family was in a state of penury, and hadn't eaten in a long while. Penury is a state of extreme poverty and destitution.
pennilessness, want, need, hardship, insolvency, privation, penury, destitution
The family's penury forced them to rely on food banks for their meals.
The penurious school system had to lay off several teachers.
poverty, penury
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penury, crave, desire, wish, need
Those letters will spell penury.
penury