penury

IPA（発音記号）

不可算名詞通常詩語

Extreme want; poverty; destitution. / (now chiefly poetic) A lack of something; a dearth.

日本語の意味

極度の貧困 / 深刻な窮乏状態 / 極度の不足（物資などの欠如）

After the factory closed, many families fell into penury and struggled to afford even basic necessities.

工場が閉鎖された後、多くの家族が極度の貧困に陥り、基本的な生活必需品さえ買うのに苦労した。

意味（1）

Extreme want; poverty; destitution.

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

意味（2）

(now chiefly poetic) A lack of something; a dearth.

No! penury, inertness and grimace, / In some strange sort, were the land's portion. […]

penuries

（ plural ）