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IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) of penurious
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet. With phonetic transcriptions, dictionarie tell you about the pronunciation of words, because the spelling of an English word does not tell you how you should pronounce it. Below is the phonetic transcription of penurious:
/pɪnɹ̩iəs/
Derived Form of penurious
adjective
comparitive: more penurious
superlative: most penurious
Adjective
1
not having enough money to pay for necessities
Synonymshard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched,
See alsopenuriously,
Similarpoor,
2
excessively unwilling to spend
Synonymsparsimonious,
Similarstingy, ungenerous,
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- Poor widow, the word...is a word from which we get the English word penurious, destitute,
- or thrift; many very penurious people are poor, while free spenders often get rich.
- You're too arrogant for someone so penurious!
- You're too arrogant for someone so penurious!
- He said, Look, everybody in this world is penurious.
- enjoyment deliberately choosing a penurious old age by what right do we prevent him from doing so
