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Broke vs Impecunious - What's the difference?

broke | impecunious |

As adjectives the difference between broke and impecunious

is that broke is (informal) lacking money; bankrupt while impecunious is lacking money.

As a noun broke

is (papermaking) paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.

As a verb broke

is (break) or broke can be to broker; to transact business for another.

broke

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) Lacking money; bankrupt
  • (informal) Broken.

    • Synonyms

    * boracic (UK rhyming slang), skint (UK slang), stony-broke (qualifier, UK slang') * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
  • *1880 , James Dunbar, The Practical Papermaker: A Complete Guide to the Manufacture of Paper , page 12:
  • *:If the broke accumulates, a larger proportion can be used in making coloured papers, otherwise the above quantity is sufiicient.
  • *1914 , The World's Paper Trade Review, Volume 62 , page 204:
  • *:Presumably, most of the brokes and waste were used up in this manner, and during the manufacture of the coarse stuff little or no attention was paid to either cleanliness or colour.
  • *2014 September 25, Judge Diane Wood, NCR Corp. v. George A. Whiting Paper Co. :
  • *:These mills purchase broke from other paper mills through middlemen and use it to make paper.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (break)
  • (archaic, or, poetic)
  • * 1999 October 3, J. Stewart Burns, "Mars University", Futurama , season 2, episode 2, Fox Broadcasting Company
    • Guenther: I guess the hat must have broke my fall.
  • # (nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.
  • He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.

    • Verb

    (brok)
  • To broker; to transact business for another.
    • (Brome)
  • (obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
  • * Fanshawe
    • We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And brokes with all that can in such a suit / Corrupt the tender honour of a maid.

    Statistics

    * English irregular simple past forms

    impecunious

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Lacking money.
  • * 1875 March 25, :
    • When I, good friends, was called to the bar,
    I'd an appetite fresh and hearty,
    But I was, as many young barristers are,
    An impecunious party.
  • * February 1896 , Ground-swells'', by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine ; page 183:
    • "Then what became of her?"
    "Her? Which 'her'? The park is full of 'hers.'"
    "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."
    "Not improbably. I presume she does sometimes take the air. And possibly she may be the happy owner of a Gainsborough hat with green feathers."
    "Don't be frivolous, please. She was in that victoria."
    "Then perhaps she was too impecunious to drive both ways."
  • * 1919 , :
    • [I]t would be a simple matter, sir, to find some impecunious author who would be glad to do the actual composition of the volume for a small fee.

    Synonyms

    * (lacking money) poor, penniless * See also

    Related terms

    * impecuniary * impecuniosity * impecuniously * impecuniousness