penurious
adjective/pəˈnjʊəriəs/
/pəˈnʊriəs/
(formal)- very poor synonym destitute, pennilessTopics Social issuesc2Word Originlate 16th cent.: from medieval Latin penuriosus, from Latin penuria ‘need, scarcity’; perhaps related to paene ‘almost’.
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