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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. not having enough money to pay for necessities;
[syn: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious, pinched]

2. excessively unwilling to spend;
- Example: "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"
- Example: "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
[syn: parsimonious, penurious]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Penurious \Pe*nu"ri*ous\, a. [From Penury.] 1. Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Not bountiful or liberal; scanty. [1913 Webster] Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. --C. Pitt. [1913 Webster] 3. Destitute of money; suffering extreme want. [Obs.] "My penurious band." --Shak. [1913 Webster] Syn: Avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; miserly; niggardly; stingy. See Avaricious. [1913 Webster] --Pe*nu"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Pe*nu"ri*ous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

penurious adj 1: not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious, pinched] 2: excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner --denying himself every indulgence" [syn: parsimonious, penurious]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "penurious": bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, begrudging, cheap, chintzy, destitute, dirt, flat broke, grudging, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, mean, mingy, miserly, near, necessitous, needy, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penniless, penny-pinching, pinchpenny, poor, poverty-stricken, shabby, sordid, stingy, thrifty, tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, ungenerous