Impecunious

Adjective

 * 1) Lacking money.
 * 2) * 1875 March 25, William S. Gilbert, Trial by Jury:
 * When I, good friends, was called to the bar,
 * I'd an appetite fresh and hearty,
 * But I was, as many young barristers are,
 * An impecunious party.
 * 1) * February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183:
 * "Then what became of her?"
 * "Her? Which 'her'? The park is full of 'hers.'"
 * "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."
 * "Not improbably. I presume she does sometimes take the air. And possibly she may be the happy owner of a Gainsborough hat with green feathers."
 * "Don't be frivolous, please. She was in that victoria."
 * "Then perhaps she was too impecunious to drive both ways."
 * 1) * 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, "Leave it to Jeeves" in My Man Jeeves:
 * [I]t would be a simple matter, sir, to find some impecunious author who would be glad to do the actual composition of the volume for a small fee.

Synonyms

 * poor, penniless
 * See also Thesaurus:impoverished

Related terms

 * impecuniary
 * impecuniosity
 * impecuniously
 * impecuniousness

Adverbs for Impecunious
wretchedly; pitiably; admittedly; obviously; terribly; woefully; uneasily; desperately; evidently; manifestly; strangely; curiously; destitutely; distressingly;  embarrassingly; alarmingly; hopelessly.

Thesaurus
badly off, destitute, distressed, down to bedrock, embarrassed, feeling the pinch, hard up, ill off, in Queer Street, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, land-poor, narrow, on the edge, out of pocket, pinched, poor, poorly off, poverty-stricken, reduced, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, squeezed, straitened, strapped, unmoneyed, unprosperous

Etymology
First attested in 1596. From im-: + pecunious: < pecuniosus: < pecunia: + -osus:.

Translations

 * Czech: nemající peníze, jsoucí bez peněz,  jsoucí bez prostředků,  nezámožný,
 * Finnish:


 * Polish:
 * Spanish: menesteroso