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.
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2. Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.
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Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. --C.
Pitt.
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3. Destitute of money; suffering extreme want. [Obs.] "My
penurious band." --Shak.
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Syn: Avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; miserly; niggardly;
stingy. See Avaricious.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
penurious
adj 1: not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: hard
up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p),
penniless, pinched]
2: excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift
relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most
penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence" [syn:
parsimonious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "penurious":
bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, begrudging, cheap, chintzy,
destitute, dirt, flat broke, grudging, hard up, impecunious,
impoverished, indigent, mean, mingy, miserly, near, necessitous,
needy, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penniless, penny-pinching,
pinchpenny, poor, poverty-stricken, shabby, sordid, stingy,
thrifty, tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, ungenerous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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