Impecunious meaning

Adjective: impecunious

Pronunciation: (im-pi’kyoo-nee-us)

Impecunious meaning:

• Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
• Having little or no money.

Synonyms: penniless, poor, beggared, destitute

Quotations: William H. Rehnquist – When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time.

Sample sentences:

• They were so impecunious that they could not afford to give one another even token Christmas gifts.
• The impecunious people asked for a loan.
• Impecunious people usually live on the street.
• Statutory heirs may recover funeral and burial expenses only if the estate is impecunious.