penurious

形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /pəˈnjʊɹ.i.əs/|/pəˈnjɝ.i.əs/|/pəˈnjɔɹ.i.əs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Miserly; excessively cheap.
    — The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
  2. Not bountiful; thin; scant.
    — The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
  3. Impoverished; wanting for money.
    — The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.

词形变化

more penurious comparative most penurious superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
penuriously penuriousness unpenurious
相关词
penury

词源

From Medieval Latin pēnūriōsus. See penury from Latin penuria (“want”), related to paene (“scarcely”), c. 1400. Compare French pénurie.
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