Definition of penurious
Adjectives
not having enough money to pay for necessities
- Synonyms:
- hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched
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poor
having little money or few possessions
excessively unwilling to spend
"lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
- Synonyms:
- parsimonious
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stingy, ungenerous
unwilling to spend
Vocabulary Lists for penurious
Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" Chapters 1-10 »(412 words)
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