Parsimonious vs Impecunious - What's the difference?
parsimonious | impecunious |
Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures.
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* Kiplinger's Personal Finance , January 2002
Lacking money.
* 1875 March 25, :
* February 1896 , Ground-swells'', by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine ; page 183:
* 1919 , :
As adjectives the difference between parsimonious and impecunious
is that parsimonious is exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy while impecunious is lacking money.parsimonious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The first three college-savings plans stand out for their parsimonious expenses...
- Statistical methods offer the ability to enforce parsimonious selection of the most influential potential predictors of each gene's state.
Synonyms
* See alsoimpecunious
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.
