penury

Extreme want or poverty; destitution.

Lack; want; scantiness.

Extreme poverty; want; indigence.

Parsimoniousness; miserliness.

Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.

Penuriousness; miserliness.

extreme want; poverty; destitution.

a lack of something; a dearth; barrenness; insufficiency.

a state of extreme poverty or destitution