Bountiful vs Penurious - What's the difference?
bountiful | penurious |
Having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.
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, title= Miserly; excessively cheap.
Not bountiful; thin; scant.
Impoverished; wanting for money.
As adjectives the difference between bountiful and penurious
is that bountiful is having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample while penurious is miserly; excessively cheap.bountiful
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Alternative forms
* bountifull (archaic)Adjective
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penurious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
- The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
- The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.