Words and phrases that have a meaning related to penurious: (119 results)
Often used in the same context:
impecunious, miserly, penniless, wretched, feckless, unenlightened, incommunicative, unproductive, indentured, beggarly, overgenerous, shiftless, gluttonous, ungenerous, rapacious, parsimonious, coldhearted, pitiful, avaricious, frugal, greedy, tightfisted, malcontented, ownerless, unaccommodating, bargain basement, hapless, thrifty, slothful, obstinate, wealthy, pitiable, overpaid, unappreciative, improvident, disdainful, abstemious, heartless, benighted, dyspeptic, propertyless, hardhearted, inept, surly, verminous, innumerate, irascible, moneyless, semiliterate, meager, saintly, unmodern, malcontent, unpunctual, haughty, futureless, uncouth, mingy, hexed, highborn, munificent, unfeeling, meek, exorbitant, larcenous, penny pincher, antediluvian, underpaid, profligate, old codger, thieving, sainted, woebegone, loathsome, dickensian, snooty, parasitical, unthankful, deracinated, uncreative, unprogressive, lousy, collectivised, soulless, pigheaded, snobbish, spiritless, benevolent, shabby, unaffectionate, humorless, miserable, unschooled, untutored, feebleminded, irreligious, lordly, ambitionless, resourceless, fatcat, joyless, expatriated, niggardly, stingy, dissolute, carefree, neglectful, slovenly, reticent, dissipated, godless, ridden, unheroic, unimaginative
Appears in the definition of:
penuriously
Synonyms:
Also try:hard up, in straitened circumstances, pinched, poor
— Nouns for penurious: habits, man, life, existence, circumstances, disposition, age, condition, economy, gentleman, state, more...
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