penury

大学

n. 贫困, 贫穷, 拮据, 馈乏 [法] 赤贫, 缺乏

发音

UK /ˈpɛnjʊɹi/
其它
US /ˈpɛnjəɹi/

词形变化

penuries 复数 penuries

别名

penurie

教材释义与例句

名词

贫困；贫穷

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Extreme need or want; destitution, poverty; (countable) an instance of this.

    不可数
  2. 2.

    Often followed by of: a lack of something; a dearth, a scarcity.

    可数 诗歌 不可数
  3. 3.

    The quality of being miserly; miserliness, parsimoniousness, stinginess.

    废旧 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

need indigence pauperism pauperization

上位词 3

poverty impoverishment poorness

下位词 3

beggary mendicancy mendicity

词源

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

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