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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
impecunious
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.
▪ He was that rare thing in any society, especially in an impecunious society under arms: a leader who was loved.
▪ It is obvious that Mr. Mahmoud was impecunious.
▪ It was shown that translation work is undertaken even for impecunious clients.
▪ There is likely to be tension between landlord and tenant, between large landowners and impecunious peasants.
▪ This warned the inhabitants that the average infantryman, in spite of his glamorous uniform, was lowly paid and impecunious.
▪ With his Yorkshireman's eye for economy he was soon suggesting that the more impecunious aeronauts might seriously consider the process.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impecunious

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
impecunious

"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.

Wiktionary
impecunious

a. Lacking money.

WordNet
impecunious

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

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.