penurious
Meaning of penurious
adjective
- Miserly; excessively cheap.
The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
- Not bountiful; thin; scant.
The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
- Impoverished; wanting for money.
The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.
Information about penurious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of penurious
penu-ri-ous
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- penurious is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
penurious synonyms
Meaning hard up:
impecunious, penniless, pinched
Meaning parsimonious:
Translation of penurious
- French: avare, avaricieux, radin, parcimonieux, ladre
- Spanish: avaro, tacaño, tacaña, avara
- German: geizig, knausrig, knauserig
- Italian: parsimonioso, tirato, avaro
Words that rhyme with penurious
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