Synonyms of penurious

1 Syllable

poor, mean, cheap, scotch

2 Syllables

hoarding, poorer, greedier, greedy, piggish, meaner, pinching, poorest, mingy, meanest, niggard, strapped, sparing, thrifty, buster, stingiest, saving, grasping, scrimping, stingier, frugal, chintzy, stingy, needy, needier

3 Syllables

penniless, indigent, costive, ungiving, tightfisted, miserly, tight-fisted, usurious, hardfisted, prudential, beggared, moneyless, unmoneyed, pinchpenny, time-saving, penny-wise, work-saving

4 Syllables

impecunious, avaricious, destitute, unprosperous, emptyhanded, pennypinching, close-fisted, ungenerous, close-handed, penny-pinching, parsimonious, stone-broke, closehanded, impencunious, necessitous, moneysaving, curmudgeonly, pennywise, money-saving, timesaving, empty-handed, fortuneless

5 Syllables

economical, impoverished, poverty-stricken, uncharitable