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penurious meaning in Malayalam

നിർദ്ധന

/pəˈnjʊə.ɹi.əs//pəˈnjʊɹ.i.əs/

penurious in Malayalam: നിർദ്ധന, ഗതികെട്ട, പാവപ്പെട്ട, വളരെ പാവപ്പെട്ട. In English, penurious means miserly; excessively cheap.

Malayalam words for penurious

poverty-stricken, poor, as poor as a church mouse
നിർദ്ധന, ഗതികെട്ട, പാവപ്പെട്ട, വളരെ പാവപ്പെട്ട, അഗതി, ഏഴയായ
mean, miserly, niggardly
പിശുക്കു കാട്ടന്ന, അല്പത്വം കാട്ടുന്ന, അല്പനായ, ലുബ്ധുള്ള, പിശുക്കുള്ള, മിതംപച

English meaning of penurious

  1. adjective Miserly; excessively cheap.
  2. adjective Not bountiful; thin; scant.
  3. adjective Impoverished; wanting for money.

Full definition of penurious

penurious in a sentence

  • The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
  • The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
  • The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.

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Questions about penurious in Malayalam

What is the meaning of penurious in Malayalam?
Penurious in Malayalam is നിർദ്ധന, ഗതികെട്ട, പാവപ്പെട്ട, വളരെ പാവപ്പെട്ട.
penurious എന്നതിന്റെ മലയാളം അർത്ഥം എന്താണ്?
Penurious: നിർദ്ധന, ഗതികെട്ട, പാവപ്പെട്ട, വളരെ പാവപ്പെട്ട.
What does penurious mean in English?
Penurious means miserly; excessively cheap.

Source and license

Malayalam words from the E.K. Kurup corpus on Olam: penurious (dataset and license). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: penurious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malayalam words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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