penurious
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1 penurious
Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
synoniemen: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched.
2 penurious
Excessively unwilling to spend:
— Lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence.
synoniem: parsimonious.
Roget 819: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed, ... meer laten zien
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, begrudging, cheap, chintzy, destitute, dirt, flat broke, grudging, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, mean, mingy, miserly, near, necessitous, needy ... meer laten zien.
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