penury

Senso (Inglese)

1. Extreme want; poverty; destitution.
2. A lack of something; a dearth.

Sinonimi

poverty

indigence

destitution

need

want

pauperism

pauperization

distress

privation

lacking

misery

needfulness

neediness

poorness

scarcity

shortage

short of

stinginess

very poor

pain

avarice

necessitousness

dearth

deficiency

emergency

exigency

garrulous

hardship

impoverishment

inadequate

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈpɛnjʊɹi/

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Latin pēnūria (“want”), related to paene (“scarcely”, adverb), c. 1400. Compare French pénurie.