penurious

penurious
adj
1. stingy, parsimonious, miserly, carking, skinflinty; mean, tight, tight-fisted, close-fisted; cheap, Sl. chintzy, moneygrubbing, grasping; niggardly, Rare. illiberal, cheeseparing; scrimping, penny-pinching, grudging, begrudging, ungenerous, stinting; thrifty, frugal, sparing, chary; economical, prudent, saving, penny-wise.
2. poverty-stricken, destitute, extremely poor; indigent, necessitous, in need, needy, distressed, impoverished; out at the elbows, shabby, shoddy, in rags, bad or badly off; pauperized, reduced, ruined, Inf. on the rocks.
3. penniless, Inf. broke or flat broke, busted, Inf. hard up, Sl. stony or stone-broke; bankrupt, out of pocket, without funds, moneyless, impecunious; depleted, drained, strapped, pinched, straitened, pressed; tight, stinted, restricted, limited; deprived, bereft, empty-handed.
4. lacking, wanting, shy, deficient; insufficient, inadequate, beggarly; skimpy, scanty, meager, scrimpy, scant; very little, paltry, poor, piddling, insubstantial, Inf. measly, mere.

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  • Penurious — Pe*nu ri*ous, a. [From {Penury}.] 1. Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. A penurious niggard of his wealth. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Not bountiful or liberal; scanty. [1913 Webster] Here creeps along a poor,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • penurious — I adjective chary, cheap, churlish, close, close fisted, close handed, frugal, greedy, grudging, illiberal, impoverished, in distress, in need, in want, indigent, mean, mercenary, miserly, needy, niggard, niggardly, nonpaying, parsimonious,… …   Law dictionary

  • penurious — 1590s, from M.L. penuriosus, from L. penuria penury (see PENURY (Cf. penury)). Originally poverty stricken, in a state of penury; meaning stingy is first attested 1630s …   Etymology dictionary

  • penurious — parsimonious, niggardly, *stingy, close, close fisted, tight, tightfisted, miserly, cheeseparing, penny pinching Analogous words: avaricious, grasping, greedy, *covetous: *mercenary, venal: *mean, abject, sordid, ignoble …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • penurious — [adj] stingy avaricious, cheap, chintzy*, close fisted, costive, curmudgeonly, economical, frugal, greedy, hoarding, miserly, parsimonious, penny pinching, pennywise*, pinchpenny*, saving, scrimping, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable,… …   New thesaurus

  • penurious — ► ADJECTIVE formal 1) extremely poor. 2) parsimonious. DERIVATIVES penuriously adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • penurious — [pe nyoor′ē əs, penoor′ē əs] adj. [ML penuriosus < L penuria: see PENURY] 1. unwilling to part with money or possessions; mean; miserly; stingy 2. characterized by extreme poverty; impoverished SYN. STINGY1 penuriously adv. penuriousness n …   English World dictionary

  • penurious — adjective a) Miserly; excessively cheap. The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof. b) Not bountiful; thin; scant. The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth …   Wiktionary

  • penurious — adjective, formal 1) a penurious student Syn: poor, poor as a church mouse, poverty stricken, destitute, necessitous, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, needy, in need/want, badly off, in reduced/straitened circumstances, hard up, u …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • penurious — adjective Date: 1590 1. marked by or suffering from penury 2. given to or marked by extreme stinting frugality Synonyms: see stingy • penuriously adverb • penuriousness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • penurious — penuriously, adv. penuriousness, n. /peuh noor ee euhs, nyoor /, adj. 1. extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly. 2. extremely poor; destitute; indigent. 3. poorly or inadequately supplied; lacking in means or resources. [1590 1600; < ML… …   Universalium

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