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Pecuniary vs Penurious - What's the difference?

pecuniary | penurious |

As adjectives the difference between pecuniary and penurious

is that pecuniary is of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial while penurious is miserly; excessively cheap.

pecuniary

English

Adjective

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  • Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
  • *1858 , (Anthony Trollope), (Doctor Thorne) , Chapter IV:
  • *:Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire's loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
  • *:The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.

    • penurious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Miserly; excessively cheap.
    • The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
  • Not bountiful; thin; scant.
    • The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
  • Impoverished; wanting for money.
    • The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.

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    Related terms

    * penury