pecuniary

1. 1.

   relating to or involving money

   “monetary rewards”

   “he received thanks but no pecuniary compensation for his services”

   Synonymsmonetary

Questions about pecuniary

What does pecuniary mean?

pecuniary means "relating to or involving money".

How many syllables are in pecuniary?

pecuniary has 5 syllables: pe-cu-ni-ar-y. The stress falls on "cu". In IPA it is /pɛˈkjuniˌɛɹi/.

What is another word for pecuniary?

Close synonyms include monetary. 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 pecuniary a common word?

pecuniary 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.