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Impecunious vs Affluent - What's the difference?

impecunious | affluent |

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

(-)
  • 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

    affluent

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rft-sense) Somebody who is wealthy.
  • * 1994 , Philip D. Cooper, Health care marketing: a foundation for managed quality (page 183)
  • The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.
  • A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Abundant; copious; plenteous.
  • * H. Reed
  • languageaffluent in expression
  • (label) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Michael Sivak
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply? , passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent , with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.}}
  • (label) Tributary.
  • (label) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
  • * Harvey
  • affluent blood

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * affluence * affluently

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