[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

penurious \penu"rious\, a. from penury.
   1. excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy;
      miserly. "a penurious niggard of his wealth." --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. not bountiful or liberal; scanty.
      1913 webster

            here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. --c.
                                                  pitt.
      1913 webster

   3. destitute of money; suffering extreme want. obs. "my
      penurious band." --shak.
      1913 webster

   syn: avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; miserly; niggardly;
        stingy. see avaricious.
        1913 webster --penu"riously, adv. --
        penu"riousness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
penury avaricious penu"riously penu"riousness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

penurious
     adj 1: not having enough money to pay for necessities syn: hard
            up, impecunious, in straitened circumstancesp,
            penniless, pinched
     2: excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift
        relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most
        penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence" syn:
        parsimonious
see also:
hard up impecunious in straitened circumstancesp penniless pinched parsimonious 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

36 moby thesaurus words for "penurious":
   bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, begrudging, cheap, chintzy,
   destitute, dirt, flat broke, grudging, hard up, impecunious,
   impoverished, indigent, mean, mingy, miserly, near, necessitous,
   needy, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penniless, penny-pinching,
   pinchpenny, poor, poverty-stricken, shabby, sordid, stingy,
   thrifty, tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, ungenerous

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