Impecunious vs Affluent - What's the difference?
impecunious | affluent |
Lacking money.
* 1875 March 25, :
* February 1896 , Ground-swells'', by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine ; page 183:
* 1919 , :
(rft-sense) Somebody who is wealthy.
* 1994 , Philip D. Cooper, Health care marketing: a foundation for managed quality (page 183)
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
Abundant; copious; plenteous.
* H. Reed
(label) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy.
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(label) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
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As adjectives the difference between impecunious and affluent
is that impecunious is lacking money while affluent is abundant; copious; plenteous.As a noun affluent is
somebody who is wealthy.impecunious
English
Adjective
(-)- 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.
- "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."
- [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 alsoaffluent
English
Noun
(en noun)- The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- languageaffluent in expression
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- affluent blood