penurious

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adjective

1. not having enough money to pay for necessities
• Syn:
hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched
• Similar to:
poor
• Derivationally related forms:
penury, penuriousness, pennilessness (for: penniless), impecuniousness (for: impecunious)
2. excessively unwilling to spend
- parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses
- lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence
• Syn:
parsimonious
• Similar to:
stingy, ungenerous
• Derivationally related forms:
penuriousness, parsimony (for: parsimonious), parsimoniousness (for: parsimonious)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  parsimonious, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, pinched