PENURIOUS vs PENNILESS: ADJECTIVE
- Not having enough money to pay for necessities
- Poverty-stricken; destitute.
- Unwilling to spend money; stingy.
- Scanty or meager.
- Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly.
- Excessively unwilling to spend
- Destitute of money; suffering extreme want.
- Miserly; excessively cheap.
- Not bountiful; thin; scant.
- Impoverished; wanting for money.
- Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.
- Not having enough money to pay for necessities
- Entirely without money.
- Very poor.
- Destitute of money; impecunious; poor.
- Not having a penny; utterly impoverished; extremely poor.
PENURIOUS vs PENNILESS: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Pertaining to or characterized by penury or want; stricken with poverty; indigent.
- Niggard; scanty; not bountiful or liberal.
- Excessively saving or sparing in the use of money; parsimonious to a fault; sordid: as, a penurious man.
- Nice and dainty.
- Synonyms Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Close, Niggardly, Stingy, Mean, covetous, avaricious, illiberal, sordid, chary. The first seven words express the spirit or conduct of those who are slow to part with money or other valuable things. Parsimonious is perhaps the most general of these words, literally sparing to spend, but always careful and excessively sparing. Penurious means literally in penury, but always feeling and acting as though one were in poverty, saving beyond reason; the word is rather stronger than parsimonious, and has perhaps rather more reference to the treatment of others. One may be parsimonious or penurious, through habits formed in times of having little, without being really miserly. Miserly, feeling and acting like a miser, is generally applied to one who, having some wealth, clings to it for fear of poverty, or in provision for some possible exigency of the future, or especially for its own sake, as delighting in the mere possession of wealth. Close has the vigor of figurative use; it may be a shortening of close-fisted. Niggardly is the least limited to money, and has the most to do with others; it expresses a meanly parsimonious treatment of others, a neglectful, self-defeating, or stingy saving. Stingy expresses the most of opprobrium: as, Queen Elizabeth was called frugal by her friends, stingy by her enemies, and parsimonious by the rest of the world. It indicates a grudging, narrow-hearted or unreasonable parsimony in giving or providing. Mean shows a tendency toward emphasizing the idea of a close or narrow and mean-spirited handling of money. See avarice.
- Without a penny; moneyless; poor.
PENURIOUS vs PENNILESS: RELATED WORDS
- Greedy, Wretched, Avaricious, Mean, Needy, Miserly, In straitened circumstances, Pinched, Hard up, Stingy, Poor, Parsimonious, Ungenerous, Penniless, Impecunious
- Hopeless, Friendless, Moneyless, Destitute, Nigh, Impotent, Powerless, Helpless, Bankrupt, In straitened circumstances, Pinched, Poor, Hard up, Penurious, Impecunious
PENURIOUS vs PENNILESS: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Greedy, Wretched, Avaricious, Mean, Needy, Miserly, In straitened circumstances, Pinched, Hard up, Stingy, Poor, Parsimonious, Ungenerous, Penniless, Impecunious
- Hopeless, Friendless, Moneyless, Destitute, Nigh, Impotent, Powerless, Helpless, Bankrupt, In straitened circumstances, Pinched, Poor, Hard up, Penurious, Impecunious
PENURIOUS vs PENNILESS: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- There was but one in the commonwealth who was more penurious, and that was his wife.
- Penurious Penguin writes "Well within the top ten Linux distros, Arch Linux has a strong following for sure.
- Modafinil's effect on fatigue to be meditatively more penurious but any ineffective recipe or induction lift somnolent unwillingly.
- It may shame us Christians, that are so basely penurious in maintaining and beautifying the worship of our God.
- Give examples of the respective meanings of covetous, avaricious, parsimonious, penurious, miserly, niggardly, stingy.
- So downstairs, I scantiness to inactive on in penetrating shopping record, some of the penurious by erre.
- Scnrron felt so much for her misery in being subject to the penurious tyrsnny of Mme.
- Re: (Score:2) by Penurious Penguin (2687307) writes: That's a pretty butch question.
- He is not luxurious, but rather penurious, in his tastes.
- The next two popes were reduced to penurious conditions.
- Mark is a wannabe actor, penniless, clueless, and inept.
- Todays dues insist that taxes have left them penniless.
- Some inaccurate information such as Charles Schwab dying penniless.
- When Poppy goes from complacent retiree to penniless wido.
- The greatest wheat speculator, Arthur Cooger, died abroad, penniless.
- Not seldom in this rapid vicissitudes of the penniless.
- John Heygate who is null, unpleasant and penniless.
- Aimee was eight months pregnant, penniless, and alone.
- He died penniless after joining a religious order.
- Universal credit scam leaves vulnerable UK families penniless.
PENURIOUS vs PENNILESS: QUESTIONS
- Are the Marines the most penurious of the military services?
- Why should the cortesan choose the penniless sitar player over Maharajah?
- How many possible solutions to the penniless crossword puzzle are there?
- Can bezenecq the rich leave his daughter thus penniless?
- What episode of VeggieTales is the Penniless Princess?