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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, begrudging, cheap, chintzy, destitute, dirt, flat broke, grudging, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, mean, mingy, miserly, near, necessitous, needy, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penniless, penny-pinching, pinchpenny, poor, poverty-stricken, shabby, sordid, stingy, thrifty, tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, ungenerous

Dictionary Results for penurious:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

penurious
    adj 1: not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn:
           hard up, impecunious, in straitened
           circumstances(p), penniless, penurious, pinched]
    2: excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved
       by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner
       --denying himself every indulgence" [syn: parsimonious,
       penurious]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Penurious \Pe*nu"ri*ous\, a. [From Penury.]
   1. Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy;
      miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." --Milton.
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   2. Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.
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            Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. --C.
                                                  Pitt.
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   3. Destitute of money; suffering extreme want. [Obs.] "My
      penurious band." --Shak.
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   Syn: Avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; miserly; niggardly;
        stingy. See Avaricious.
        [1913 Webster] --Pe*nu"ri*ous*ly, adv. --
        Pe*nu"ri*ous*ness, n.
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