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impecunious

UK/ˌɪm.pəˈkjuː.ni.əs/

impecunious adjective: lacking money.

Adjective

impecunious (not comparable)

  1. Lacking money.
    • 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.1875 March 25, William S. Gilbert, Trial by Jury
    • "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...February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183
    Synonyms:
    poor, penniless

impecunious meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

impecunious in Urdu

Impecunious
نادار nādār

impecunious in Malayalam

poor, penniless, impoverished
നിർദ്ധനം, ദരിദ്രം, നിസ്വം, ദ്രവ്യമില്ലാത്ത, പാവപ്പെട്ട, നിഷ്കിഞ്ചന

impecunious in Kannada

ಬಡ, ಹಣವಿಲ್ಲದ, ಧನಹೀನ, ದುಡ್ಡಿಲ್ಲದ, ನಿರ್ಧನನಾದ

Examples of impecunious in a sentence

  • [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.1919, P. G. Wodehouse, “Leave it to Jeeves”, in My Man Jeeves:
  • The Rhymney (51 route miles), once an impecunious hanger-on of the Taff Vale, had enjoyed its own route through Caerphilly into Cardiff since 1871, [...].1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 158:

Synonyms of impecunious

Origin of impecunious

From im- + pecunious, from Latin pecūniōsus, from pecūnia (“money”) + -ōsus (“full of”).

Questions about impecunious

What does impecunious mean?
Impecunious means lacking money.
What is impecunious in Urdu?
Impecunious in Urdu is نادار (nādār). See Impecunious meaning in Urdu.
How do you use impecunious in a sentence?
[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.
What part of speech is impecunious?
Impecunious is an adjective.
How do you pronounce impecunious?
Impecunious is pronounced /ˌɪm.pəˈkjuː.ni.əs/ (UK).

Words near impecunious in the dictionary

  1. impeccant
  2. impectinate
  3. impecuniary
  4. impecuniosities
  5. impecuniosity
  6. impecunious
  7. impecuniously
  8. impecuniousness
  9. impecunities
  10. impecunity
  11. imped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: impecunious (page history and authors); نادار (Urdu) (page history and authors); impecunious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); impecunious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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