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penurious

English

  1. 🔊 excessively unwilling to spend
    “parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses”
  2. 🔊 not having enough money to pay for necessities

Similar words

parsimonious hard up impecunious in straitened circumstances(p) penniless pinched bankrupt beggared beggarly begrudging cheap chintzy destitute dirt flat broke grudging hard up impecunious impoverished indigent mean mingy miserly near