Usually means: Lacking money; extremely poor financially.
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  1. penurious: Merriam-Webster
  2. penurious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. penurious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. penurious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. penurious: Vocabulary.com
  6. penurious: Wordnik
  7. penurious: Wiktionary
  8. penurious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. penurious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. penurious: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Penurious, penurious: Dictionary.com
  12. Penurious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Penurious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. penurious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. penurious: Rhymezone
  16. Penurious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. penurious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. penurious: FreeDictionary.org
  19. penurious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. penurious: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. penurious: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Miserly; excessively cheap.
▸ adjective:  Not bountiful; thin; scant.
▸ adjective:  Impoverished; wanting for money.

Similar:
parsimonious, stingy, impecunious, poor, hard up, penniless, pinched, ungenerous, in straitened circumstances, miserly, more...

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generous, lavish, prodigal, extravagant

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parsimonious, stingy, miserly, cheap, tight-fisted, penny-pinching, more...

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Similar:
parsimonious, stingy, impecunious, poor, hard up, penniless, pinched, ungenerous, in straitened circumstances, miserly, more...

Opposite:
generous, lavish, prodigal, extravagant

Types:
parsimonious, stingy, miserly, cheap, tight-fisted, penny-pinching, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     olive,     brown, more...



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