1. (n.) Absence of resources; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution\.

2. (n.) Penuriousness; miserliness.

bare cupboard bare subsistence beggarliness beggary deprivation destitution empty purse grinding poverty gripe hand-to-mouth existence homelessness impecuniousness impoverishment indigence lack mendicancy moneylessness necessitousness necessity need neediness pauperism pauperization pinch poorness privation want