impecunious
adjective
[ ˌɪmpɪˈkjuːnɪəs ]
• having little or no money.
• "a titled but impecunious family"
Similar:
penniless,
penurious,
in penury,
poor,
impoverished,
indigent,
insolvent,
moneyless,
hard up,
poverty-stricken,
needy,
in need,
in want,
destitute,
poor as a church mouse,
without a sou,
in straitened circumstances,
on one's beam ends,
unable to make ends meet,
on the breadline,
broke,
flat broke,
strapped for cash,
cleaned out,
strapped,
on one's uppers,
skint,
boracic,
stony broke,
in Queer Street,
stone broke,
pauperized,
beggared,
Origin:
late 16th century: from in-1 ‘not’ + obsolete pecunious ‘having money, wealthy’ (from Latin pecuniosus, from pecunia ‘money’).
