英语词汇“penurious”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

penurious

释义

Adjective: penurious pi'nyûreeus

Not having enough money to pay for necessities
- hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched, badly-off
Excessively unwilling to spend
"lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
- parsimonious

See also: penuriously, penuriousness, penury, poor, stingy, ungenerous

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