Penurious

3 definitions found

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

  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}.
          [1913 Webster] --{Pe*nu"ri*ous*ly}, adv. --
          {Pe*nu"ri*ous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

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

  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