penuriously

1. 1.

   in a penurious manner

   “they lived penuriously”

Questions about penuriously

What does penuriously mean?

penuriously means "in a penurious manner".

How many syllables are in penuriously?

penuriously has 5 syllables and divides as pe-nu-ri-ou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is penuriously a common word?

penuriously 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.