All penurious synonyms
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P p adjective penurious
- niggard β an excessively parsimonious, miserly, or stingy person.
- hoarding β a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- mean β to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- niggardly β reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.
- esurient β Hungry or greedy.
- fortuneless β Unlucky, unfortunate.
- needy β in a condition of need or want; poverty-stricken; impoverished; extremely poor; destitute.
noun penurious
- impoverishment β to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- niggardliness β The state of being niggardly.
- abjection β an abject state or condition
- impecuniosity β having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- aridities β being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- frugality β the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- forehandedness β Quality of being forehanded.
- aridity β being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- neediness β a condition of want or need; poverty; indigence.
- mendicancy β the practice of begging, as for alms.
- avarice β Avarice is extremely strong desire for money and possessions.
- mendicity β mendicancy.
- exiguity β The quality of being meagre or scanty.
- miserliness β of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly.
- beggary β extreme poverty or need
- impecuniousness β The property of being impecunious.
- greediness β excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
- closeness β to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- grabbiness β The quality of being grabby; acquisitive greed.
adj penurious
- dirt poor β lacking nearly all material means or resources for living.
- flat broke β having no money
- destitute β Someone who is destitute has no money or possessions.
- buster β a person or thing destroying something as specified
- close β When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- grasping β greedy; avaricious: a sly, grasping man.
- impecunious β having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- ironfisted β ruthless, harsh, and tyrannical: an ironfisted dictator.
- close-fisted β very careful with money; mean
- in-satiable β not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased: insatiable hunger for knowledge.
- costive β having constipation; constipated
- broke β Broke is the past tense of break.
- in-solvent β not solvent; unable to satisfy creditors or discharge liabilities, either because liabilities exceed assets or because of inability to pay debts as they mature.
- mingy β mean and stingy; niggardly.
- down and out β downward; going or directed downward: the down escalator.
- curmudgeonly β If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- beggared β a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- moneyless β any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- necessitous β destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent: to aid a necessitous young mother.
- cleaned out β free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- miserly β of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly.
- economical β avoiding waste or extravagance; thrifty: an economical meal; an economical use of interior space.