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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Penurious \Pe*nu"ri*ous\, adjective [From {Penury}.]
1. Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. ''A penurious niggard of his wealth.'' --Milton.
2. Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.
Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. --C. Pitt.
3. Destitute of money; suffering extreme want. [Obs.] ''My penurious band.'' --Shak.
Syn: Avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; miserly; niggardly; stingy. See {Avaricious}. --{Pe*nu"ri*ous*ly}, adverb -- {Pe*nu"ri*ous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
penurious
adjective
1: not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: {hard up}, {impecunious}, {in straitened circumstances(p)}, {penniless}, {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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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