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Definition of impecunious in English: impecuniousadjective ˌɪmpɪˈkjuːnɪəsˌɪmpəˈkjuniəs Having little or no money. a titled but impecunious family Example sentencesExamples - I was aware of two games on Saturday where the relatively impecunious visitors were regarded as massive underdogs.
- So he induces Ray to offer Jonathan a vast sum of money to undertake an assassination in Berlin - money which the seriously ill and impecunious Jonathan badly needs.
- Well-born but impecunious younger brothers kidnap heiresses and roguishly attempt to persuade them into matrimony.
- The family was very poor, an impecunious state somewhat worsened by the fact that while the other lads playing in the street would be called in for their tea at six, he and his younger brother would go into an empty house.
- There was only one Indian restaurant in Greater Boston, and as an impecunious student I couldn't afford to go there more than once a semester.
- He gave impecunious artists credit, not always willingly.
- Unfortunately, impecunious students like me who went there in search of good bargains (like the fabulous ones they had last year) came away disappointed.
- Students who come to apartments for ‘free talk’ may offer to escort a foreign teacher downtown on Saturdays to explore bargain shopping districts or taste inexpensive regional cuisine at restaurants known to impecunious students.
- The neighbour who gave me the tickets was an impecunious artist and I was sitting in the cheap seats, just out of range, even from ricochets.
- I don't know whether those furry impecunious gourmands will go for these unusual pepper varieties as much as I do, so just in case I also interspersed some jalapenos, tabascos and Thai Dragons.
- The opportunity to compete in Europe would be a major boost to the impecunious Bosnian game for it is a poor country with little money available to develop its football.
- Like many other impecunious Caribbean drifters at the time, Dampier slipped into a life of freebooting and buccaneering, hopping from ship to ship, raiding Spanish vessels and towns.
- Anyone from any nation, no matter how affluent or impecunious they may be, can step on to our golden sands and enjoy the gifts of our national icons.
- He was mainly a designer, and his career - from impecunious family in Glasgow to a large house with servants in Kensington - demonstrated what talent and hard work could do in Victorian Britain.
- Thus, the case for spending money on him rather than an impecunious prospect becomes harder to argue.
- The stock market crash in the 1920s left him impecunious, however, and his attempt to make a mark as a painter came to little.
- It should go without saying it is a dish with which I am well familiar, having produced many of my own during my impecunious early 20s.
- As an impecunious artist myself, I have indeed had to learn to live by my wits, and by whatever sparse and sporadic income I can glean from my paintings.
- More than half of the work I do now is for non-profit organisations, but that world is neither as acquiescent in terms of helping designers realise their dreams nor as impecunious as you may think it is.
- Superb presents can be had here - though not by the impecunious.
Synonyms penniless, penurious, in penury, poor, impoverished, indigent, insolvent, moneyless, hard up, poverty-stricken, needy, in need, in want, destitute poor as a church mouse, without a sou, in straitened circumstances, on one's beam ends, unable to make ends meet British on the breadline, without a penny (to one's name) informal broke, flat broke, strapped for cash, cleaned out, strapped, on one's uppers, without two pennies/brass farthings to rub together British informal skint, boracic, stony broke, in Queer Street North American informal stone broke rare pauperized, beggared
Origin Late 16th century: from in-1 'not' + obsolete pecunious 'having money, wealthy' (from Latin pecuniosus, from pecunia 'money'). Definition of impecunious in US English: impecuniousadjectiveˌimpəˈkyo͞onēəsˌɪmpəˈkjuniəs Having little or no money. a titled but impecunious family Example sentencesExamples - The family was very poor, an impecunious state somewhat worsened by the fact that while the other lads playing in the street would be called in for their tea at six, he and his younger brother would go into an empty house.
- I don't know whether those furry impecunious gourmands will go for these unusual pepper varieties as much as I do, so just in case I also interspersed some jalapenos, tabascos and Thai Dragons.
- There was only one Indian restaurant in Greater Boston, and as an impecunious student I couldn't afford to go there more than once a semester.
- Like many other impecunious Caribbean drifters at the time, Dampier slipped into a life of freebooting and buccaneering, hopping from ship to ship, raiding Spanish vessels and towns.
- Anyone from any nation, no matter how affluent or impecunious they may be, can step on to our golden sands and enjoy the gifts of our national icons.
- Unfortunately, impecunious students like me who went there in search of good bargains (like the fabulous ones they had last year) came away disappointed.
- Superb presents can be had here - though not by the impecunious.
- The neighbour who gave me the tickets was an impecunious artist and I was sitting in the cheap seats, just out of range, even from ricochets.
- The opportunity to compete in Europe would be a major boost to the impecunious Bosnian game for it is a poor country with little money available to develop its football.
- So he induces Ray to offer Jonathan a vast sum of money to undertake an assassination in Berlin - money which the seriously ill and impecunious Jonathan badly needs.
- He was mainly a designer, and his career - from impecunious family in Glasgow to a large house with servants in Kensington - demonstrated what talent and hard work could do in Victorian Britain.
- The stock market crash in the 1920s left him impecunious, however, and his attempt to make a mark as a painter came to little.
- Students who come to apartments for ‘free talk’ may offer to escort a foreign teacher downtown on Saturdays to explore bargain shopping districts or taste inexpensive regional cuisine at restaurants known to impecunious students.
- It should go without saying it is a dish with which I am well familiar, having produced many of my own during my impecunious early 20s.
- I was aware of two games on Saturday where the relatively impecunious visitors were regarded as massive underdogs.
- He gave impecunious artists credit, not always willingly.
- As an impecunious artist myself, I have indeed had to learn to live by my wits, and by whatever sparse and sporadic income I can glean from my paintings.
- Thus, the case for spending money on him rather than an impecunious prospect becomes harder to argue.
- More than half of the work I do now is for non-profit organisations, but that world is neither as acquiescent in terms of helping designers realise their dreams nor as impecunious as you may think it is.
- Well-born but impecunious younger brothers kidnap heiresses and roguishly attempt to persuade them into matrimony.
Synonyms penniless, penurious, in penury, poor, impoverished, indigent, insolvent, moneyless, hard up, poverty-stricken, needy, in need, in want, destitute
Origin Late 16th century: from in- ‘not’ + obsolete pecunious ‘having money, wealthy’ (from Latin pecuniosus, from pecunia ‘money’). |