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Lacking money
Answer for the clue "Lacking money ", 11 letters:
impecunious
Word definitions for impecunious in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Lacking money.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a gifted but impecunious painter EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Brown Institution trust funds were never adequate, but Twort preferred impecunious independence. ▪ For an impecunious woman of twenty-nine, the gulf was unbridgeable. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: hard up , in straitened circumstances(p) , penniless , penurious , pinched ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impecunious \Im"pe*cu"ni*ous\, a. [L. im- not + pecunia money: cf. F. imp['e]cunieux.] Not having money; habitually without money; poor. An impecunious creature. --B. Jonson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"lacking in money," 1590s, from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + Latin pecuniosus "rich," from pecunia "money, property" (see pecuniary ). Related: Impecuniously ; impecuniosity .
Usage examples of impecunious.
A prisoner of her thespian ambitions and his own impecunious situation, Mark felt increasingly like a bird in a gilded cage, albeit a gilded, distempered, decoupaged and beribboned cage lined with toile de Jouy.
London and Rouen, but the impecunious gallants bred on Arthurian romance and Ovidian sophistries in the entourage of the Countess of Champagne.
For a few sesterces a day they guarantee to turn the sons of impecunious but social-climbing Third or Fourth Classers into lawyers, who then solicit business tirelessly up and down the Forum, preying upon our gullible but litigious-minded populace.
I am a jeunesse doree -- gilded by blood and fashion, though so utterly impecunious!
An instructor at Waverley who was enjoying the delicious indignations of impecunious youth had once made a few remarks to a class in elementary philosophy on the iniquity of consuming seventy tons of coal each winter to warm one man.
The building itself leaned far out of plumb, dolorous, as though seeking impecunious support from some destitute relative on its west side.
These wards were filled with derelicts: old women with dementia, impecunious veterans down on their luck, noseless men with tertiary syphilis and the like.