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English and French Translation Search Results for penury

Summary

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penury:
- pauvreté; misère; besoin
Wiktionary:
- penury → avarice

English

Detailed Translations for penury from English to French

penury:

penury [the ~] noun

the penury (poverty; lack; paucity; destitution; dearth; hardship; need; want)
la pauvreté; la misère; le besoin
- pauvreté [la ~] noun
- misère [la ~] noun
- besoin [le ~] noun

Translation Matrix for penury:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
besoin	dearth; destitution; hardship; lack; need; paucity; penury; poverty; want	adversity; bad luck; crisis; deficiency; destitution; emergency situation; famine; indigentness; lack; misfortune; need; neediness; needyness; of limited means; paucity; poorness; reverse; scantiness; scarcity; shortage; state of emergency; tightness; trouble; want
misère	dearth; destitution; hardship; lack; need; paucity; penury; poverty; want	adversity; bad condition; bad luck; blows; calamity; catastrophe; deficiency; destitution; disaster; disasters; discomforts; famine; grief; helplessness; hollowness; lack; lankiness; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; miserable condition; misery; misfortune; misfortunes; necessity; need; needyness; parsimony; paucity; poor situation; poorness; problems; punches; reverse; sadness; scantiness; scarcity; shortage; skinniness; slenderness; sorrow; sparsity; squalor; thinness; tightness; trouble; troubles; want
pauvreté	dearth; destitution; hardship; lack; need; paucity; penury; poverty; want	adversity; depravedness; destituteness; destitution; disaster; famine; frugality; fumblingness; harbourless; hollowness; indigentness; lankiness; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; necessity; need; neediness; needyness; of limited means; parsimony; paucity; plainness; poorness; poverty; scantiness; scarcity; seediness; shabbiness; shortage; simpleness; simplicity; skinniness; skinnyness; slenderness; sobriety; sparsity; thinness; tightness
-	indigence; need; pauperisation; pauperism; pauperization

Synonyms for "penury":

indigence; need; pauperism; pauperization; poverty; poorness; impoverishment

Related Definitions for "penury":

a state of extreme poverty or destitution¹

Wiktionary Translations for penury:

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• penury	→ avarice	↔ Geiz — heftiger Unwille etwas abzugeben

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¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University