Impecunious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impecunious \Im"pe*cu"ni*ous\, a. [L. im- not + pecunia money:
     cf. F. imp['e]cunieux.]
     Not having money; habitually without money; poor.
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           An impecunious creature.                 --B. Jonson.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  impecunious
       adj : not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: {hard
             up}, {in straitened circumstances(p)}, {penniless}, {penurious},
              {pinched}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "impecunious":
     badly off, destitute, distressed, down to bedrock, embarrassed,
     feeling the pinch, hard up, ill off, in Queer Street,
     in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances,
     in straitened circumstances, land-poor, narrow, on the edge,
     out of pocket, pinched, poor, poorly off, poverty-stricken,
     reduced, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money,
     squeezed, straitened, strapped, unmoneyed, unprosperous