penurious

Adjective Satellite

• not having enough money to pay for necessities
• excessively unwilling to spend
  • "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"

Adj

• Miserly; excessively cheap.
• Not bountiful; thin; scant.
• Impoverished; wanting for money.

Examples

• The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
• The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
• The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.

Synonyms

hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, parsimonious, penniless, pinched, almsless, arm, as tight as Dick's hatband, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, cheap, cheeseparing, chintzy, close, close as wax, close-fisted, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, feeling the pinch, flat, illiberal, impoverished, in need, indigent, insolvent, lower-class, mean, miserable, miserly, narrow-fisted, necessitous, needy, niggardly, nipcheese, oofless, pauperized, peddling, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penurious, pok kai, poor, poor as Job, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, scrooge-like, scrubby, shabby, shillingless, skint, still got one's communion money, stingy, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, swear, threadbare, tight, tight as a tick, tight-fisted, tighter than Dick's hatband, ungenerous, ungiving, unwealthy, wealthless

Antonyms

impoverished, poor

Related Words

penury