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penuriousadjective giving or sharing as little as possiblethe company's penurious management could not be convinced of the need to earmark more money for research and development cheap, chintzy, close, closefisted, mean, mingy, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, pinching, pinchpenny, spare, sparing, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous careful, chary, conserving, economical, economizing, frugal, saving, scrimping, skimping, thriftyacquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, desirous, grasping, greedy, hoggish, itchy, mercenary, rapacious, selfish, shabby, small, sordidbegrudging, envious, grudging, resentfulinhospitable bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting altruistic, selfless, unselfishextravagant, free, handsome, lavish, overgenerous, profusebeneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic(also philanthropical)compassionate, good-hearted, greathearted, kindly, magnanimous, openheartedthriftless, unthriftydissipating, frittering, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, splurging, squandering, wasteful, wasting lacking money or material possessionsthe most penurious members of the community are forced to depend on the services of the food bank beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-poor, down-and-out, famished, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, poor, poverty-stricken, skint(chiefly British), threadbare deprived, disadvantaged, dispossessed, unaffluent, underprivilegedbankrupt, bankrupted, bust(or busted), insolventpossessionless, ruineddepressed, distressed, hand-to-mouth, hardscrabble, pinched, poorish, reduced, straitenedcash-strapped, low, short, tapped out down on one's luck, out at elbows(or out at the elbows), out of pocket affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, moneyed(also monied), opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do comfortable, prosperous stingy, close, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, miserly mean being unwilling or showing unwillingness to share with others.stingy implies a marked lack of generosity.a stingy child, not given to sharing close suggests keeping a tight grip on one's money and possessions.folks who are very close when charity calls niggardly implies giving or spending the very smallest amount possible.the niggardly amount budgeted for the town library parsimonious suggests a frugality so extreme as to lead to stinginess.a parsimonious lifestyle notably lacking in luxuries penurious implies niggardliness that gives an appearance of actual poverty.the penurious eccentric bequeathed a fortune miserly suggests a sordid avariciousness and a morbid pleasure in hoarding.a miserly couple devoid of social conscience in 1590 |