Penurious - English meaning

adjective

Having or showing an extreme greed for wealth or material gain.

Usage examples:

Avaricious corporate bosses looking to maximize profits

adjective

Showing an extremely strong wish to get or keep money or possessions

Usage examples:

The idea is to shift the bad debts of the avaricious and the greedy onto the shoulders of middle-cl…

adjective

Only a short distance away or apart in space or time.

Usage examples:

The hotel is close to the sea

adverb

Very near to someone or something; with very little space between.

Usage examples:

They stood close to the door

noun

Another term for high (sense 7 of the adjective).

adjective

Extremely poor and lacking the means to provide for oneself.

Usage examples:

The charity cares for destitute children

adjective

Without money, possessions, or any of the things needed to live

Usage examples:

These groups gathered clothing, schoolbooks, and medical supplies for the destitute flood victims.

adjective

Without money, food, a home, or possessions

Usage examples:

During the global economic crisis many people were left destitute., poverty and destitution are wid…

adjective

Avaricious; greedy.

Usage examples:

They were regarded as grasping landlords

verb

Seize and hold firmly.

Usage examples:

She grasped the bottle

adjective

Always eager to get more of something, esp. money

Usage examples:

He’s a grasping, insensitive executive.

adjective

Having an excessive desire or appetite for food.

Usage examples:

He's scoffed the lot, the greedy pig

adjective

Wanting a lot more food, money, etc. than you need

Usage examples:

Greedy, selfish people, he's greedy for power/success., they tested the algorithm against the so-ca…

adjective

Opposed to liberal principles; restricting freedom of thought or behaviour.

Usage examples:

Illiberal and anti-democratic policies

adjective

Limiting freedom of expression, thought, behaviour, etc.

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Illiberal policies

adjective

Having little or no money.

Usage examples:

A titled but impecunious family

adjective

Having very little money

Usage examples:

The company suffered huge losses as its young, impecunious buyers failed to start to make payments …

adjective

(of a person or area) made poor.

Usage examples:

Impoverished villages

verb

Make (a person or area) poor.

Usage examples:

The wars had impoverished him

adjective

Extremely poor

Usage examples:

An impoverished family

adjective

Poor; needy.

Usage examples:

A charity for the relief of indigent artists

noun

A needy person.

Usage examples:

Automatons, illiterates and indigents of every shape and size, don't stop but aid this cruel crusad…

adjective

Having no money or anything else of value

Usage examples:

An indigent family

verb

Intend to convey or refer to (a particular thing); signify.

Usage examples:

I don't know what you mean

adjective

Unwilling to give or share things, especially money; not generous.

Usage examples:

She felt mean not giving a tip

noun

The value obtained by dividing the sum of several quantities by their number; an average.

Usage examples:

Acid output was calculated by taking the mean of all three samples

adjective

Mean.

Usage examples:

You've been too mingy with the sunscreen

adjective

Not generous and unwilling to give money

Usage examples:

I only gave five pounds towards his present - do you think that was a bit mingy?, i hate that resta…

adjective

Of or characteristic of a miser.

Usage examples:

His miserly great-uncle proved to be worth nearly £1 million

adjective

Like or typical of a miser

Usage examples:

A miserly person, the workers are paid a miserly $2 a day.

adjective

(of a person) lacking the necessities of life; needy.

Usage examples:

Dried milk was supplied to necessitous mothers

adjective

(of a person) lacking the necessities of life; very poor.

Usage examples:

Needy and elderly people

adjective

Ungenerous with money, time, etc.; mean.

Usage examples:

He accused the government of being unbelievably niggardly

adverb

In a mean or meagre manner.

Usage examples:

So, while i saw the guests sipping niggardly the punch in their short glasses, i helped myself to a…

adjective

Slight in amount, quality, or effort

Usage examples:

A niggardly donation/amount

adjective

Very unwilling to spend money or use resources.

Usage examples:

Even the parsimonious joe paid for drinks all round

adjective

Unwilling to spend money; miserly.

Usage examples:

Being frugal doesn't mean you have to turn into a penny pinching miser

noun

Unwillingness to spend money.

Usage examples:

This penny-pinching has exposed the bridge's steelwork to corrosion

adjective

Unwilling to spend money

Usage examples:

Workers decided to take a stand against management's penny-pinching approach to resources., the tra…

adjective

Lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society.

Usage examples:

They were too poor to afford a telephone

adjective

Extremely poor

Usage examples:

My grandparents arrived in this country as poverty-stricken immigrants.

verb

Be thrifty or parsimonious; economize.

Usage examples:

I have scrimped and saved to give you a good education

verb

Present participle of scrimp

Usage examples:

There is a risk that the debt-ridden airline may be tempted to scrimp on maintenance or security., …

adjective

Mean; ungenerous.

Usage examples:

His boss is stingy and idle

adjective

Not generous, or unwilling to spend money

Usage examples:

Some bankers are stingy in lending to small businesses.

adjective

Fixed, fastened, or closed firmly; hard to move, undo, or open.

Usage examples:

She twisted her handkerchief into a tight knot

adverb

Very firmly, closely, or tensely.

Usage examples:

He went downstairs, holding tight to the bannisters

adjective

Infml unwilling to spend money

adjective

Not generous; mean.

Usage examples:

He was not an ungenerous man