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  1. penurious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. penurious: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  3. Penurious: Wiktionary [home, info]
  4. penurious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  5. penurious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  6. penurious: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  7. Penurious, penurious: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  8. penurious: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Penurious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  10. penurious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  11. penurious: Rhymezone [home, info]
  12. Penurious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  13. penurious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  14. penurious: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
  15. penurious: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  16. penurious: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
  17. penurious: Luciferous Logolepsy [home, info]
  18. penurious: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  19. penurious: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  20. penurious: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  21. penurious: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Quick definitions (penurious)

adjective:  excessively unwilling to spend ("Lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence")
adjective:  not having enough money to pay for necessities

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Words similar to penurious:   impecunious, parsimonious, penniless, penuriously, penuriousness, pinched, hard up, in straitened circumstances, mean, miserly, needy, more...


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