impecunious

impecunious
    adj 1: not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn:
           {hard up}, {impecunious}, {in straitened
           circumstances(p)}, {penniless}, {penurious}, {pinched}]
    

Impecunious \Im"pe*cu"ni*ous\, a. [L. im- not + pecunia money:
   cf. F. imp['e]cunieux.]
   Not having money; habitually without money; poor.
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         An impecunious creature.                 --B. Jonson.
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30 Moby Thesaurus words for "impecunious":
      badly off, destitute, distressed, down to bedrock, embarrassed,
      feeling the pinch, hard up, ill off, in Queer Street,
      in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances,
      in straitened circumstances, land-poor, narrow, on the edge,
      out of pocket, pinched, poor, poorly off, poverty-stricken,
      reduced, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money,
      squeezed, straitened, strapped, unmoneyed, unprosperous