penury Synonyms

need pauperism pauperization indigence hand-to-mouth existence scarceness scarcement scantiness ruin privation poverty poorness scarcity trouble want financial distress hardships dire poverty straitened circumstances pennilessness pauperisation pauperdom necessitousness impecuniousness homelessness penuriousness needs neediness difficulty destitution deprivation demand dearth beggary beggarliness begging bankruptcy austerity distress failure famine necessity misery mendicity mendicancy lack insufficiency insolvency impoverishment impecuniosity