Associations to the word «Penurious»
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Wiktionary
PENURIOUS, adjective. Miserly; excessively cheap.
PENURIOUS, adjective. Not bountiful; thin; scant.
PENURIOUS, adjective. Impoverished; wanting for money.
Dictionary definition
PENURIOUS, adjective. Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
PENURIOUS, adjective. Excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence".
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.