PENURIOUS
Scrabble 11 Words With Friends 15
Definition
- adjective not having enough money to pay for necessities.
— synonyms: hard_up, impecunious, in_straitened_circumstances(p), penniless, pinched
- adjective excessively unwilling to spend.
— synonyms: parsimonious
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.”
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