What does hard up mean?

hard up means "not having enough money to pay for necessities".

What is another word for hard up?

Close synonyms include impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hard up a common word?

hard up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

hard up — meaning, pronunciation and definition

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
not having enough money to pay for necessities
Synonymsimpecunious in straitened circumstances penniless penurious pinched
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