Words and phrases that have a meaning related to penury: (116 results)
Often used in the same context:
destitution, impoverishment, squalor, pauperism, pauperisation, oblivion, wretchedness, purposelessness, despair, beggary, servitude, pauperization, privation, starvation, destitute, pittances, poverty, voicelessness, indigence, breadline, zamindari, zamindars, prodigality, serfdom, gerontocracy, mendicants, misery, aristocracies, immiseration, maharajahs, abyss, peasantry, allurements, poorhouses, improvidence, backwardness, irrelevance, desuetude, kulaks, slothfulness, despondency, obscurity, reclusion, idleness, peonage, decrepitude, ghastliness, ignominy, ruination, petit bourgeois, despond, despondence, dotage, anomie, commoners, mundanity, outcaste, beggar, welfarism, hardship, usurer, nothingness, zamindar, drudgery, deracination, agony, enfeeblement, toil, unwept, sullenness, unfortunates, spinsterhood, penal servitude, pelf, hopelessness, opulence, hovels, atavism, mediocrity, stagnation, dispair, issueless, ostracism, deprivation, mendicancy, unpunctuality, gentlefolk, triviality, gainful, delusion, romanticisation, drudges, stultification, philistinism, ritualism, nawabs, landed gentry, lunacies, perdition, enslavement, brahmins, debility, helplessness, want, insecurity, insignificance, unhappiness, depravity, discouragement, subjection, abasement, apathy, dejection, feebleness
More general:
poorness
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— Adjectives for penury: extreme, chill, absolute, great, utter, such, abject, hopeless, comparative, relative, near, more...
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