| Penury 1. (n.) Absence of resources; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. 2. (n.) Penuriousness; miserliness. Thesaurus Entries 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 |