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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Lacking money; penniless. See Synonyms at poor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having no money; poor; penniless.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Lacking money.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Not having money; habitually without money; poor.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. not having enough money to pay for necessities

Etymologies

  1. in-1 + pecunious, rich (from Middle English, from Old French pecunios, from Latin pecūniōsus, from pecūnia, money, wealth; see peku- in Indo-European roots).

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  • Casey "The jug was labeled fairly enough--CAMEL PISS--and a double shot could be obtained for three pennies. It was a drink only for the reckless or the impecunious, but a fair number of both passed beneath the stern gaze of The Romp each night; Stanley rarely had a problem emptying the jug." From Wizard and Glass by Stephen King. Jan 27, 2011

  • BrainyBabe Scales, though he was always spending money, was not at all well off; he did not pay for the house himself. A most obliging building society, which existed solely for the purpose of enabling impecunious Englishmen to feel that their homes were their castles, did that. -- ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931. Dec 24, 2008

‘impecunious’ has been looked up 2246 times, loved by 8 people, added to 102 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 17.