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adjective

not having enough money to pay for necessities
• Syn:
impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched
• Similar to:
poor
• Derivationally related forms:
penury (for: penurious), penuriousness (for: penurious), pennilessness (for: penniless), impecuniousness (for: impecunious)