'penurious' definitions:

Not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious, pinched]

Excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner --denying himself every indulgence" [syn: parsimonious, penurious]