penurious.
Miserly; excessively cheap.
Meaning & usage
Miserly; excessively cheap.
The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
Not bountiful; thin; scant.
The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
Impoverished; wanting for money.
The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.
Where this word comes from
From Medieval Latin pēnūriōsus. See penury from Latin penuria (“want”), related to paene (“scarcely”), c. 1400. Compare French pénurie.
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