impecunious

1. 1.

   not having enough money to pay for necessities

   Synonymshard upin straitened circumstancespennilesspenuriouspinched

   Similarpoor

Questions about impecunious

What does impecunious mean?

impecunious means "not having enough money to pay for necessities".

How many syllables are in impecunious?

impecunious has 5 syllables: im-pe-cu-ni-ous. The stress falls on "ni".

What is another word for impecunious?

Close synonyms include hard up, 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 impecunious a common word?

impecunious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.