PENURIOUS Synonyms

• someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

• financially ruined

• reduce to bankruptcy

• marked by poverty befitting a beggar

• (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

• lacking funds

• poor enough to need help from others

• completely wanting or lacking

• poor enough to need help from others

• destroyed financially

• poor enough to need help from others

• needy people collectively

• poor enough to need help from others

• demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree

• a state of extreme poverty or destitution

• having little money or few possessions

• characterized by or indicating poverty

• lacking in quality or substances

• people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)

• deserving or inciting pity

• of insufficient quantity to meet a need

• poor enough to need help from others

• excessively unwilling to spend

• not having enough money to pay for necessities

• sounding as if the nose were pinched

• very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

• not having enough money to pay for necessities

• as if squeezed uncomfortably tight

• not having enough money to pay for necessities

• not having enough money to pay for necessities