Destitution vs. Penury — What's the Difference?

Extreme want of resources or the means of subsistence; complete poverty.

Extreme want or poverty; destitution.

A deprivation or lack; a deficiency.

Extreme want; poverty; destitution.

(obsolete) The action of deserting or abandoning.

A lack of something; a dearth.

Discharge from office; dismissal.

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

The condition of lacking something.

Penuriousness; miserliness.

An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support.

A state of extreme poverty or destitution;

The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.

A state without friends or money or prospects