Penurious

Definition: Penurious

Penurious

Adjective

1. Not having enough money to pay for necessities.

2. Excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "penurious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Penurious \Pe*nu"ri*ous\, adjective. [From Penury.]. (references)

Synonyms: Penurious

Parsimony

Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.

Crosswords: Penurious

Books

• Money Talks: An Irreverent Guide for the Curious, Penurious, Penny-Wise, and Pound-Foolish (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i varfër (bad, beggarly, destitute, fortuneless, impecunious, indigent, lame, lazarus, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, miserable, one horse, poor, spare, squalid, wretched), i mjerë (abject, crummy, desolate, dismal, forlorn, ill fated, ill-starred, infelicitous, lowlife, miserable, paltry, pimping, piteous, sorry, unhappy, unlucky, worm), i kursyer (abstemious, abstinent, careful, cheap, close, economic, frugal, provident, skimpy, thrifty), dorështrënguar (avaricious, careful, close-fisted, grasping, large handed, mean, mingy, miserly, muckworm, parsimonious, penny-pinching, rapacious, saving, scrimp, skinflint, snippy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فقير (destitute, fakir, indigent, low-income, moneyless, necessitous, needy, ownerless, pauper, poor, poor mouth, poverty stricken), ‏بائس (afflicted, cheerless, deplorable, desolate, devil, disconsolate, distressed, forlorn, godforsaken, hapless, heel, helpless, lamentable, measly, miserable, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, poor, poverty stricken, ratty, sad, scruffy, seedy, sickly, sordid, squalid, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стиснат (cheeseparing, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, mean, mingy, near, sparing, squeezed, tight, tight-fisted), скъпернически (avaricious, covetous, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, shabby, stingy), оскъден (beggarly, exiguous, insufficient, jejune, lean, meager, meagre, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimpy, skinny, spare, sparing, starveling, stingy, thin, tight), беден (fortuneless, humble, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jejune, meager, meagre, mean, moneyless, necessitous, needful, needy, penniless, pokey, poky, poor, poorly off, poverty stricken, scanty, shabby, tenuous, thin). (various references)

Czech

nuzný (badly off, destitute, hand to mouth, indigent, meagre, needy, sordid). (various references)

Farsi 

فقیر (Poor), خسیس (Hard, Hidebound, Miserly, Scotchman, Scrimpy, Skimpy, Skinflint, Sordid, Stingy, Stringent, Tight, Ungenerous), بی قوت (Atonic). (various references)

French

misérable, indigent (poor person). (various references)

German

geizig (avaricious, avariciously, costive, illiberal, mean, miserly, parsimonious, parsimoniously, penuriously, stingily, stingy, thrifty, tight-fisted). (various references)

Greek 

πενιχρόσ (exiguous, jejune, meager, meagre, scanty, shabby), φιλάργυροσ (avaricious, illiberal, miser, miserly, muckworm, parsimonious, skinflint, sordid, stingy, ungenerous). (various references)

Hebrew 

ע� י (impecunious, indigent, miserable, pauper, poor, poor person, wretched), �"ל (humble, light, meagre, miserable, poor, scanty, spare). (various references)

Hungarian

szegényes (beggarly, grain of wheat in a bushel of chaff, Lenten, meagre, miserly, pitiable, pokey, poorish, poverty-stricken, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, slender). (various references)

Indonesian

pelit (miserly, stingy). (various references)

Italian

scarso (failing, jejune, low, meager, meagre, poor, scant, scantily, scanty, scarce, skimpily, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sparse, thin, tight, weak), avaro (avaricious, close, grasping, greedy, hard-fisted, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, near, skinflint, stingy, tight, tightfisted, tightwad). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鬼婆 (hag, penurious or spiteful old woman, witch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おにばば (hag, penurious or spiteful old woman, witch). (various references)

Manx

pitteogagh (illiberal, parsimonious), gortagh (beggarly, chary, cheese-paring, close-fisted, frugal, grudging, hurt, hurtful, illiberal, injurious, meagre, miser, miserly, parsimonious, pinching, scant, scanty, skimpy, stingy). (various references)

Pig Latin

enuriouspay.(various references)

Portuguese

pobre (almsman, beggar, beggarly, close-fisted, destitute, eleemosynary, hard set, hungry, indigent, jejune, lazarus, lean, mean, mendicant, miserable, necessitous, needy, pauper, penniless, poor, shabby), mesquinho (cheeseparing, close-fisted, costive, despicable, illiberal, little, logy, mangy, mean, mingy, miserly, niggling, peddling, pimping, pitiable, scaly, scrubby, scurvy, small, sordid, stingy, unhandsome), improdutivo (barren, close-fisted, fruitless, jejune, lean, poor, sterile, unfruitful, ungrateful, unproductive), estéril (abortive, close-fisted, effete, fruitless, futile, jejune, lean, poor, sterile, ungrateful, unproductive, useless, vain), escasso (close-fisted, lenten, low, meager, meagre, scant, scanty, scarce, short, slim, spare, sparing, sparse, thin, tight), deficiente (bad, close-fisted, defective, deficient, faulty, lacking, low, meager, meagre, scanty, scrimp, short, skimpy, under, wanting), avarento (avaricious, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, hunks, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, parsimonious, scraper, scrimpy, skimpy, skinflint, stingy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Romanian

zgârcit (accumulator, avaricious, cheese paring, churlish, clenched, close, close-fisted, close-handed, costive, covetous, curmudgeon, grasping, hunks, illiberal, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, parsimonious, penny father, penny-wise, screw, skimpy, skin, skinflint, sparing, stingy, tight), sãrac (barren, beggarly, destitute, empty, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, lean, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, needful, needy, pauper, peeled, penniless, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, poor man, poverty stricken, scanty, small, sterile, stingy, void), sãrãcãcios (baldly, barely, barren, humble, mean, meanly, miserable, modest, poky, poor, poorly, poverty stricken, scant, shabby, slender, sorry, sparing), lipsit (absent, destitute, needful), avar (accumulative, avaricious, churl, churlish, close, close-fisted, grasping, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, screw, stingy). (various references)

Russian 

скупой (cheese paring, churlish, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, griping, grudging, hard, hardfisted, mean, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, penny-pinching, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight-fisted, ungenerous). (various references)

Scottish

saoghalta. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oskudan (barren, deficient, destitute, exiguous, meager, meagre, necessitous, needy, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, short, shy, skimpy, spare, sparing, stingy, stringent, tight), škrt (avaricious, chary, close-fisted, grudging, hardfisted, mean, miser, miserly, parsimonious, scanty, scotch, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight, tightfisted, tight-fisted). (various references)

Spanish

poco fértil, pobre (abject, beggar, destitute, dismal, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jimp, meager, meagre, mingy, miserable, miserly, needy, pathetic, pathetical, pauper, poor, scrappy, wretched), tacaño (cheapie, cheapskate, cheeseparing, close, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, penny-pinching, piker, pinchpenny, screw, skimpy, skinflint, stingy, tight, tightwad), mezquino (beggarly, cheap, hard-fisted, mean, measly, miserable, paltry, petty, petty-minded, scabby, scaly, shabby, skimpy, small minded, small-minded), avaro (avaricious, close-fisted, grasper, grasping, grudging, miser, miserly, money grubber, money-grubbing, parsimonious, scrimpy, tight-fisted, tightwad). (various references)

Swedish

torftig (austere, barren, insubstantial, jejune, meagre, needy, poor, scanty, skimpy, threadbare), fattig (impecunious, impoverished, indigent, meagre, miserable, necessitous, needy, paltry, poor, poverty-striken). (various references)

Turkish

yoksul (hand to mouth, in need, indigent, needy, pauper, poor, poor person, poverty stricken), kıt (close, constricted, droughty, exiguous, few, lean, limited, meager, meagre, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimp, skimpy, stingy), kısıtlı (constricted, limited, narrow, qualified, restricted, scant, scanty, stinted, Strait), fakir (destitute, distressed, fakir, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, needy, pauper, penniless, poor, poor person, ropy, small), cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, parsimonious, penny pincher, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous). (various references)

Ukrainian

скнарий (churlish, hard-fisted, mingy, miserly, tight-fisted), бідний (bare, barren, destitute, fortuneless, lean, necessitous, needful, needy, one horse, pauper, poor, scrannel, shabby, tenuous, underprivileged). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiếu thốn (destitute), túng thiếu keo kiết, keo cú (close-fisted, grasping, graspingly, hard), bủn xỉn (close-fisted, hard-fisted, meanly, miserly, scrimpy, skimpingly, skimpy). (various references)

penuriosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "penurious": penuriously, penuriousness, penuriousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Penurious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pendrous, penerious, penunious, penurios, penurius, penurous, poenuius, Pygurus, veneryous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pruinose.

-2 letters: euripus, inpours, orpines, purines, ruinous, soupier, uprisen, uprouse, urinose, urinous.

-3 letters: inpour, insure, inures, irones, nosier, opines, orpine, orpins, person, poiser, ponies, poseur, prions, prison, prunes, prunus, puisne, punier, purine, purins, pursue, repins, ripens, rouens, rusine, senior, sniper, spinor, supine, unpure, unripe, unrips, unsure, uprise, uprose, urines, ursine.

-4 letters: eosin, euros, inure.

+2 letters: penuriously.

+3 letters: spuriousness.

+4 letters: penuriousness, unpretentious.

+5 letters: immunosuppress, micropunctures, proventriculus, repunctuations, spuriousnesses, superabounding, superannuation, superinduction, supernutrition, superovulating, superovulation, unpopularities, uproariousness.