347 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pɛnjˈʊɹɪəs], [ pɛnjˈʊɹɪəs], [ p_ɛ_n_j_ˈʊ_ɹ_ɪ__ə_s]

Similar words for penurious:

• broke (adjective)
• close (adjective)
• close-fisted (adjective)
• destitute (adjective)
• economical (adjective)
• grasping (adjective)
• greedy (adjective)
• impecunious (adjective)
• impoverished (adjective)
• indigent (adjective)
• mean (adjective)
• miserly (adjective)
• necessitous (adjective)
• needy (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• parsimonious (adjective)
• penniless (adjective)
• penny-pinching (adjective)
• poor (adjective)
• poverty-stricken (adjective)
• stingy (adjective)
• strapped (adjective)
• tightfisted (adjective)
• hard up (noun)
• in straitened circumstances (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "penurious" in context?

Synonyms for Penurious:

• adj.

  • broke (adjective)
  • tapped out,
  • in debt,
  • insolvent,
  • bust,
  • indebted,
  • penurious,
  • bankrupt,
  • ruined,
  • in chapter 11.
  • close (adjective)
  • illiberal,
  • closefisted,
  • narrow,
  • tight-fisted,
  • skinflint,
  • niggardly,
  • skimpy,
  • mingy.
  • close-fisted (adjective)
  • most closehanded,
  • most close-handed,
  • hard fisted,
  • close handed,
  • more close handed,
  • more close-handed,
  • more closehanded,
  • most close handed,
  • Closehanded,
  • close fisted.
  • destitute (adjective)
  • deficient,
  • exhausted,
  • pinched,
  • empty,
  • bereft,
  • drained,
  • Divested,
  • totaled,
  • Without,
  • stony,
  • busted,
  • lacking,
  • stripped,
  • wiped out,
  • depleted.
  • economical (adjective)
  • unwasteful,
  • canny,
  • methodical,
  • money-saving,
  • provident,
  • cost-effective,
  • time-saving,
  • work-saving,
  • meager,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • practical,
  • prudent,
  • chary,
  • on the rims,
  • efficient,
  • prudential,
  • timesaving,
  • Skimping,
  • circumspect,
  • watchful,
  • spare,
  • penny-wise.
  • grasping (adjective)
  • avid,
  • rapacious,
  • extortionate,
  • itchy,
  • Extorting,
  • selfish,
  • grabby,
  • covetous,
  • acquisitive,
  • desirous,
  • venal.
  • greedy (adjective)
  • devouring,
  • hungry,
  • edacious,
  • ravenous,
  • craving,
  • omnivorous,
  • Gormandizing,
  • insatiable,
  • impatient,
  • hoggish,
  • guzzling,
  • gulping,
  • carnivorous,
  • voracious,
  • grudging,
  • intemperate,
  • Gobbling,
  • gluttonous,
  • eager.
  • impecunious (adjective)
  • unprosperous,
  • homeless.
  • impoverished (adjective)
  • clean,
  • barren,
  • have-not,
  • sterile,
  • spent,
  • hurting,
  • reduced,
  • distressed.
  • indigent (adjective)
  • down and out,
  • in want.
  • mean (adjective)
  • scrimpy.
  • miserly (adjective)
  • most cheapskate,
  • more cheapskate.
  • necessitous (adjective)
  • on one's uppers,
  • on ones uppers,
  • on uppers,
  • on one uppers.
  • needy (adjective)
  • down to last cent,
  • down at heel,
  • dis-advantaged,
  • under-privileged,
  • under privileged,
  • down heel,
  • down last cent,
  • dis advantaged.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • out of money,
  • on last leg,
  • greedy,
  • devoid of,
  • mean,
  • in need of,
  • penniless,
  • Beggared,
  • played out,
  • insatiate,
  • cleaned out,
  • impoverished,
  • dead broke,
  • swinish,
  • piggish,
  • stingy,
  • in the gutter,
  • penny-pinching,
  • impencunious,
  • ravening,
  • miserably poor,
  • prehensile,
  • usurious,
  • stone-broke,
  • dirt poor,
  • impecunious,
  • without a dime,
  • hardfisted,
  • Close-handed,
  • destitute,
  • broke,
  • buster,
  • poverty-stricken,
  • on the breadline,
  • needy,
  • economical,
  • stone broke,
  • grasping,
  • down to last penny,
  • parsimonious,
  • Unmoneyed,
  • on the rocks,
  • miserly,
  • esurient,
  • flat broke,
  • Strapped,
  • poor,
  • moneyless,
  • pennypinching,
  • deprived of,
  • in great need; financially poor.
  • parsimonious (adjective)
  • tightwad,
  • most tightwad,
  • more tightwad.
  • penniless (adjective)
  • down last penny,
  • without dime,
  • in gutter,
  • over barrel.
  • penny-pinching (adjective)
  • penny pinching.
  • poor (adjective)
  • down-and-out,
  • poorer,
  • empty-handed,
  • squalid,
  • deprived,
  • Fortuneless,
  • struggling,
  • shabby,
  • embarrassed,
  • hand-to-mouth,
  • pauper,
  • in need,
  • truly needy,
  • behind eight ball,
  • scruffy,
  • dilapidated,
  • beggarly.
  • poverty-stricken (adjective)
  • povertystricken,
  • un moneyed,
  • most impencunious,
  • more impencunious,
  • more unmoneyed,
  • most unmoneyed,
  • in dire circumstances,
  • poverty stricken,
  • un-moneyed.
  • stingy (adjective)
  • scurvy,
  • ironfisted,
  • study at stingy.
  • strapped (adjective)
  • more stone-broke,
  • more stone broke,
  • most stone broke,
  • stonebroke,
  • out money,
  • most stone-broke,
  • most stonebroke,
  • more stonebroke.
  • tightfisted (adjective)
  • most money conscious,
  • most money-conscious,
  • more money conscious,
  • money conscious,
  • moneyconscious,
  • more money-conscious,
  • money-conscious,
  • more moneyconscious,
  • most moneyconscious.

• n.

  •
  • cheap,
  • petty,
  • give,
  • niggard.
  • hard up (noun)
  • hard up.
  • in straitened circumstances (noun)
  • in straitened circumstances.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • property.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • costive,
  • close-fisted,
  • necessitous,
  • Pinching.
  •
  • indigent,
  • Hard-fisted,
  • tightfisted.
  •
  • rich.
  •
  • tight.
  • Other relevant words:
  • close.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • churl,
  • up against it,
  • stony-broke,
  • avidity,
  • meanness,
  • avaricious,
  • adenoidal,
  • bony,
  • flat,
  • cheese-paring,
  • little,
  • gaunt,
  • dead,
  • possessive,
  • in bad straits,
  • inconsiderate,
  • wretched,
  • scarce,
  • fortune,
  • scrooge,
  • scrubby,
  • chintzy,
  • hard,
  • Scrimping,
  • careful,
  • money-grubbing,
  • beggar,
  • saving,
  • frugality,
  • sparing,
  • Ungiving,
  • impeccable,
  • covetousness,
  • wasted,
  • miser,
  • ungenerous,
  • scotch,
  • low,
  • save,
  • near,
  • scrimp,
  • emaciated,
  • churlish,
  • closeness,
  • poor man,
  • famished,
  • starveling,
  • economy,
  • hidebound,
  • stinting,
  • on the skids,
  • frugal,
  • greediness,
  • nasal,
  • scanty,
  • measly,
  • starvation,
  • Pinchpenny,
  • poor person,
  • pennywise,
  • scant,
  • straitened,
  • Mean-spirited,
  • sordid,
  • hoarding,
  • skint,
  • parsimony,
  • lean,
  • greed,
  • uncharitable,
  • miserable,
  • dirt-poor,
  • underprivileged,
  • conservative,
  • Economizing,
  • unaccommodating,
  • thrifty,
  • cupidity,
  • meagre,
  • begrudging,
  • mercenary,
  • miserliness,
  • Starvations,
  • thrift,
  • skeletal,
  • stinginess,
  • avarice,
  • Pauperized,
  • needful,
  • penuriously,
  • difficult,
  • Griping,
  • badly off,
  • cadaverous,
  • bad off,
  • peddling,
  • bad,
  • small,
  • skimp,
  • short,
  • dirt,
  • thoughtless,
  • haggard,
  • cheeseparing.

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