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Synonyms:
- niggardly, close-fisted, distressed, close, covetous, threadbare, chintzy, destitute, miserly, cheap, beggarly, embarrassed, in need, in straitened circumstances, pauperized, famished, pinched, impecunious, skint, penny-pinching, poor, deprived, busted, rapacious, spare, tight, pinching, ungenerous, impoverished, tightfisted, pauper, sordid, down-and-out, shabby, avaricious, homeless, parsimonious, niggard, have-not, costive, greedy, scruffy, poverty-stricken, beggared, struggling, hard up, dilapidated, hard-fisted, pinchpenny, bankrupt, squalid, indigent, stingy, mean, mingy, badly off, needful, study at stingy, stinting, strapped, give, necessitous, uncharitable, hand-to-mouth, dirt-poor, frugal, petty, rich, closefisted, needy, penniless, bereft, sparing, broke
Examples:
- - Their broadest pleasantries failed to raise a smile, and the coarse realities of a narrow, penurious existence had no power to disturb his happy serenity. - "The Aspirations of Jean Servien", Anatole France
- - I did this for two reasons: I did not have the courage to tell Gora the truth- and that I was too unjust and penurious to restore the money you had taken; and as your wife it would have hurt my pride unbearably. - "The Sisters-In-Law", Gertrude Atherton
- - He was a shrewd, but ignorant man; penurious, industrious, and heartless. - "The Story of Norway", Hjalmar H. Boyesen
Antonyms:
- deep-pocketed, benevolent, opulent, beneficent, openhanded, dissipating, overgenerous, generous, altruistic, rich, liberal, freehanded, bounteous, munificent, kindly, unsparing, free, fat-cat, comfortable, unthrifty, unselfish, lavish, compassionate, wealthy, unstinting, philanthropic, greathearted, spendthrift, openhearted, profligate, hospitable, fat, profuse, prosperous, thriftless, well-to-do, bountiful, splurging, humanitarian, good-hearted, selfless, extravagant, well-heeled, frittering, squandering, flush, charitable, moneyed, silk-stocking, wasteful, handsome, wasting, affluent, well-off, magnanimous, prodigal
