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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   penurious

   • IPA[pəˈno͝orēəs]

   美式

   • adj.
     extremely poor; poverty-stricken；characterized by poverty or need
2. • 釋義

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. extremely poor; poverty-stricken a penurious old tramp 同義詞 poor, as poor as a church mouse, poverty-stricken, destitute, necessitous, ... 更多in penury, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, needy, in need/want, badly off, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, hard up, on one's beam-ends, unable to make ends meet, underprivileged, penniless, without a sou, moneyless, bankrupt, bust, insolvent, on the breadline, without a penny (to one's name), informalbroke, flat broke, cleaned out, strapped for cash, strapped, on one's uppers, stony broke, skint, without two pennies to rub together, without two (brass) farthings to rub together, in Queer Street, stone broke, rarepauperized, beggared反義詞 wealthy
   • ▪ characterized by poverty or need penurious years
   • 2. parsimonious; mean a tight-fisted, penurious boss whose wage scale is well below other bandleaders 同義詞 miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, close-fisted, ... 更多cheeseparing, scrimping, grasping, greedy, avaricious, Scroogelike, ungenerous, illiberal, close, mean, informalstingy, mingy, tight, tightfisted, money-grubbing, money-grabbing, vulgar slangtight-arsed, tight-assed, archaicnear反義詞 generous