penury

nounA2

Định nghĩa theo từ loại

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

penuries

1.
(uncountable, usually)Extreme need or want; destitution, poverty; (countable) an instance of this.
2.
(countable, poetic, usually)(countable, now chiefly poetic) Often followed by of: a lack of something; a dearth, a scarcity.
Đồng nghĩa: barrenness, insufficiency
3.
(obsolete, uncountable, usually)The quality of being miserly; miserliness, parsimoniousness, stinginess.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

barrennessinsufficiency

Cùng gốc / liên quan

penuredpenurouspenured obsoletepenurious penuriously penuriousness

Từ có viền nét liền là đã có mục từ; viền nét đứt là chưa có trong dữ liệu.

Nguồn gốc từ

From Late Middle English penuri, penurie (destitution, need, poverty; dearth, lack, scarcity), borrowed from Latin pēnūria (need, scarcity, want) + Middle English -i, -ie; further etymology uncertain, possibly related to paene (almost, nearly; barely, hardly, scarcely), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (to hate; to hurt).