Dictionary Entry
penury
penury is a 6-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
- 2noun
Penuriousness; miserliness.
- 3noun
a state of extreme poverty or destitution
"their indigence appalled him"
"a general state of need exists among the homeless"
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