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IMPECUNIOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does impecunious mean?
• IMPECUNIOUS (adjective)
The adjective IMPECUNIOUS has 1 sense:
1. not having enough money to pay for necessities
Familiarity information: IMPECUNIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not having enough money to pay for necessities
Synonyms:
hard up; impecunious; in straitened circumstances; penniless; penurious; pinched
Similar:
poor (having little money or few possessions)
Derivation:
impecuniousness (a state of lacking money)
Context examples
This fiend has several imprudent letters—imprudent, Watson, nothing worse—which were written to an impecunious young squire in the country.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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