Associations to the word «Penurious»

Wiktionary

PENURIOUS, adjective. Miserly; excessively cheap.
PENURIOUS, adjective. Not bountiful; thin; scant.
PENURIOUS, adjective. Impoverished; wanting for money.

Dictionary definition

PENURIOUS, adjective. Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
PENURIOUS, adjective. Excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne