Word Meanings - IMPECUNIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not having money; habitually without money; poor. An impecunious creature. B. Jonson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPECUNIOUS)

• Indigent
• Poor
• straitened
• needy
• impecunious
• moneyless
• penniless
• weak
• meagre
• insufficient
• deficient
• faulty
• unsatisfactory
• inconsiderable
• thin
• scanty
• bald

Related words: (words related to IMPECUNIOUS)

• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• IMPECUNIOUS
  Not having money; habitually without money; poor. An impecunious creature. B. Jonson.
• DEFICIENT
  Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was
• STRAITEN
  1. To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine. Waters, when straitened, as at the falls of bridges, give a roaring noise. Bacon. In narrow circuit, straitened by a foe. Milton. 2. To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
• PENNILESS
  Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. -- Pen"ni*less*ness, n.
• INDIGENT
  stand in need of, fr. OL. indu + L. egere to be needy, 1. Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. Bacon. 2. Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous. Indigent faint souls
• INCONSIDERABLE
  Not considerable; unworthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial; as, an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity, degree, value, or sum. "The baser scum and inconsiderable dregs of Rome." Stepney. -- In`con*sid"er*a*ble*ness,
• SCANTY
  1. Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant. his dominions were very narrow and scanty. Locke. Now scantier limits the proud arch confine. Pope. 2. Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words;
• INSUFFICIENT
  1. Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality. "Insufficient for His praise." Cowper. 2. Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill;
• FAULTY
  1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended. Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since. Milton. 2. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure. Shak. The king doth speak
• MONEYLESS
  Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.
• NEEDY
  1. Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous. Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land. Deut. xv. 11. Spare the bluches of needly merit. Dr. T. Dwight. 2. Necessary;
• MEAGRE
  A large European sciænoid fish ,
• INDIGENTLY
  In an indigent manner.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• INDEFICIENT
  Not deficient; full. Brighter than the sun, and indeficient as the light of heaven. Jer. Taylor.
• MEAGER; MEAGRE
  Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. Syn. -- Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren. (more info) 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak.
• MEAGERLY; MEAGRELY
  Poorly; thinly.