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Penurious

//pəˈnjʊə.ɹi.əs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Miserly; excessively cheap.

    "The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof."

  2. 2
    Not bountiful; thin; scant.

    "The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth."

  3. 3
    Impoverished; wanting for money.

    "The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly."

Adjective
  1. 1
    excessively unwilling to spend wordnet
  2. 2
    not having enough money to pay for necessities wordnet

Etymology

From Medieval Latin pēnūriōsus. See penury from Latin penuria (“want”), related to paene (“scarcely”), c. 1400. Compare French pénurie.

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