POOR vs PENURIOUS: NOUN
- People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
- Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
- A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.
- Poor people considered as a group.
- In England, a gadoid fish, Gadus minutus.
- N/A
POOR vs PENURIOUS: ADJECTIVE
- Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
- So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
- Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected.
- Having little money or few possessions
- Badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances
- Characterized by or indicating lack of money
- Unsatisfactory
- Not sufficient to meet a need
- Moderate to inferior in quality
- Yielding little by great labor
- Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior.
- Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.
- Relating to or characterized by poverty.
- Deficient or lacking in a specified resource or quality.
- Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager
- Negative, unfavorable, or disapproving.
- Undernourished; lean. Used especially of animals.
- Humble; meek.
- Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable.
- Deserving or inciting pity
- Inadequate, insufficient
- Deficient in a specified way.
- To be pitied.
- Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land.
- With little or no possessions or money.
- Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected.
- Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean.
- Low in degree
- Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit.
- Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable.
- Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant.
- Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.
- Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
- Of low quality.
- Garlic; -- so called because it was thought to be an antidote to animal poison.
- The red-flowered pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis), which opens its blossoms only in fair weather.
- An assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor.
- The friar bird.
- Those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy. In a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by the public.
- A law providing for, or regulating, the relief or support of the poor.
- Impoverished; wanting for money.
- Not bountiful; thin; scant.
- Miserly; excessively cheap.
- Destitute of money; suffering extreme want.
- Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.
- Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly.
- Scanty or meager.
- Unwilling to spend money; stingy.
- Poverty-stricken; destitute.
- Not having enough money to pay for necessities
- Excessively unwilling to spend
POOR vs PENURIOUS: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Possessing little; destitute of wealth: opposed to rich: as, a poor man; a poor community.
- Lacking means to procure the comforts of life; indigent; needy; necessitous; specifically, in law, so destitute or impoverished as to be dependent upon charity, or upon the poorrates; pauper.
- Deficient in or destitute of desirable or essential qualities; lacking those qualities which render a thing valuable, desirable, suitable, or sufficient for its purpose; inferior; bad: as, poor bread; poor health; cattle in poor condition.
- In particular— Of little consequence; trifling; insignificant; paltry: as, a poor excuse.
- Of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- Characterized by or indicating poverty
- Lacking in quality or substances
- Lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
- Mean; shabby: as, a poor outfit; poor surroundings.
- Lean; meager; emaciated: as, poor cattle.
- Lacking in fertility; barren; exhausted: as, poor land.
- To pet in a pitying, compassionate way.
- Destitute of merit or worth; barren; jejune: as, a poor discourse; a poor essay.
- Unfortunate; to be pitied or regretted: much used colloquially as a vague epithet indicative of sympathy or pity for one who is sick, feeble, or unhappy, or of regret for one who is dead.
- Miserable; wretched: used in contempt.
- Humble; slight; insignificant: used modestly in speaking of things pertaining to one's self.
- Lacking in spirit or vigor; feeble; impotent.
- 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.
POOR vs PENURIOUS: RELATED WORDS
- Pitiable, Low, Resourceless, Needy, Inferior, Pathetic, Deficient, Impoverished, Inadequate, Destitute, Miserable, Mediocre, Wretched, Bad, Pitiful
- Greedy, Wretched, Avaricious, Mean, Needy, Miserly, In straitened circumstances, Pinched, Hard up, Stingy, Poor, Parsimonious, Ungenerous, Penniless, Impecunious
POOR vs PENURIOUS: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Pitiable, Low, Resourceless, Needy, Inferior, Pathetic, Deficient, Impoverished, Inadequate, Destitute, Miserable, Mediocre, Wretched, Bad, Pitiful
- Greedy, Wretched, Avaricious, Mean, Needy, Miserly, In straitened circumstances, Pinched, Hard up, Stingy, Poor, Parsimonious, Ungenerous, Penniless, Impecunious
POOR vs PENURIOUS: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Poor Law inspections and massive land sales, although it is hard to imagine that the poor benefited when they swapped Catholic for Protestant landlords.
- These lead to poor organization, follow through, incomplete homework, and poor attention and vigilance in the classroom.
- These include poor credit history, payment delinquencies or even poor tax history.
- Evidently, officials who a poor fighting crime also conduct poor capital investigations and trials.
- Charge a lot kind of fees without notice and poor poor customer service.
- Poor implementation can lead to poor quality, delays in testing, and increased cost.
- Specialty glove, organic solvents Extremely expensive, poor physical properties, poor vs.
- Poor quality education give rise to poor economic conditions.
- They start talking about poor people being lazy, poor people not wanting to work, poor people not taking care of their kids.
- We are both poor, very poor, perfectly poor.
- 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.
POOR vs PENURIOUS: QUESTIONS
- Are schools serving poor students being shortchanged?
- What causes poor results from aspirated psychrometers?
- How does poor corporate communication affect employees?
- Do American banks treat the poor like Bangladeshis do the poor?
- How might poor leadership be evidence of poor leadership?
- Why should we not blame the poor for the poor children?
- Is it better to be humble and poor than rich and poor?
- Are children from frequently-poor families more likely to be poor?
- Why do poor countries have such a poor view of religion?
- Does poor government funding improve education in poor countries?
- Are the Marines the most penurious of the military services?