penurious

Meanings

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.

Synonyms

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, hard up, illiberal, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in straitened circumstances, indigent, insolvent, lower-class, mean, miserable, miserly, narrow-fisted, necessitous, needy, niggardly, nipcheese, oofless, parsimonious, pauperized, peddling, penniless, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, poor as Job, 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