Usually means: Lacking money; poor; financially strained.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word impecunious:

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  1. impecunious: Merriam-Webster
  2. impecunious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impecunious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. impecunious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. impecunious: Vocabulary.com
  6. impecunious: Wordnik
  7. impecunious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. impecunious: Wiktionary
  9. impecunious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. impecunious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. impecunious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Impecunious, impecunious: Dictionary.com
  13. impecunious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Impecunious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. impecunious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. impecunious: Rhymezone
  17. impecunious: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  18. Impecunious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. impecunious: FreeDictionary.org
  20. impecunious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. impecunious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. impecunious: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. impecunious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impecunious: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Lacking money.

Similar:
poor, hard up, penniless, penurious, pinched, in straitened circumstances, destitute, emptyhanded, unpossessing, unfortuned, more...

Opposite:
wealthy, affluent, prosperous, rich

Types:
broke, penniless, destitute, indigent, needy, penurious, more...
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Similar:
poor, hard up, penniless, penurious, pinched, in straitened circumstances, destitute, emptyhanded, unpossessing, unfortuned, more...

Opposite:
wealthy, affluent, prosperous, rich

Types:
broke, penniless, destitute, indigent, needy, penurious, more...



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