impecunious

The word “impecunious” has 5 syllables: im-pe-cu-ni-ous

It's pronounced as /ˌɪm.pɪ.kjuːˈnɪ.əs/


What is synonym and antonym for impecunious?

In the thesaurus, “impecunious” has 52 synonyms and 16 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for impecunious along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for impecunious

  • bankrupt
  • bankrupted
  • beggared
  • beggarly
  • broke
  • bust
  • busted
  • cash-strapped
  • cleaned out
  • depressed
  • deprived
  • destitute
  • dirt poor
  • dirt-poor
  • disadvantaged
  • dispossessed
  • distressed
  • down-and-out
  • famished
  • hand-to-mouth
  • hard up
  • hardscrabble
  • homeless
  • impoverished
  • indigent
  • insolvent
  • low
  • necessitous
  • needful
  • needy
  • out at elbows
  • out at the elbows
  • out of pocket
  • pauperized
  • penniless
  • penurious
  • pinched
  • poor
  • poorish
  • possessionless
  • poverty-stricken
  • reduced
  • ruined
  • short
  • skint
  • straitened
  • strapped
  • tapped out
  • threadbare
  • unaffluent
  • underprivileged
  • unprosperous

Antonyms for impecunious

  • affluent
  • comfortable
  • deep-pocketed
  • fat
  • fat-cat
  • flush
  • moneyed
  • monied
  • opulent
  • prosperous
  • rich
  • silk-stocking
  • wealthy
  • well-heeled
  • well-off
  • well-to-do

Meanings of impecunious

  • adjective
    1. Lacking money.

Example Sentences

  • The impecunious student struggled to afford the necessary textbooks for class.
  • Despite being impecunious, he always found a way to help others in need.
  • The novel tells the story of an impecunious artist trying to make a name for himself.
  • Her impecunious background did not stop her from achieving great success.
  • He was raised in an impecunious family, but it never held him back from dreaming big.

On this page you'll find 68 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to impecunious, such as: affluent, bankrupt, bankrupted, beggared, beggarly, broke, bust.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

unaffluent

necessitous

  • acute
  • all-important
  • bad off
  • bankrupt
  • bankrupted
  • basic
  • beggared
  • beggarly
  • behind the eight ball
  • broke
  • burning
  • bust
  • busted
  • cash-strapped
  • central
  • clamant
  • compelling
  • compulsory
  • consequential
  • critical
  • crucial
  • crying
  • dangerous
  • demanding
  • depressed
  • deprived
  • desperate
  • destitute
  • dire
  • dirt poor
  • dirt-poor
  • disadvantaged
  • dispossessed
  • distressed
  • down-and-out
  • emergent
  • empty-handed
  • essential
  • exigent
  • explosive
  • extreme
  • famished
  • flat
  • flat broke
  • fortuneless
  • fundamental
  • grave
  • hand-to-mouth
  • hard up
  • hardscrabble
  • hazardous
  • immediate
  • impecunious
  • imperative
  • imperious
  • important
  • importunate
  • impoverished
  • in need
  • in want
  • indigent
  • indispensable
  • insistent
  • insolvent
  • instant
  • integral
  • intense
  • key
  • life-and-death
  • life-or-death
  • low
  • major
  • mandatory
  • material
  • meager
  • meaningful
  • momentous
  • moneyless
  • must-have
  • necessary
  • needed
  • needful
  • needy
  • nonelective
  • obligatory
  • of the essence
  • organic
  • out at elbows
  • out at the elbows
  • out of pocket
  • overriding
  • pauperized
  • penniless
  • penurious
  • perilous
  • persistent
  • pinched
  • poor
  • poorish
  • possessionless
  • poverty-stricken
  • precarious
  • prerequisite
  • pressing
  • reduced
  • required
  • requisite
  • ruined
  • scanty
  • serious
  • severe
  • short
  • significant
  • skint
  • stone broke
  • straitened
  • strapped
  • substantial
  • suffering
  • tapped out
  • threadbare
  • truly needy
  • unaffluent
  • underprivileged
  • unprosperous
  • unstable
  • urgent
  • vital
  • weighty

needful

  • abundance
  • advantage
  • all-important
  • banknote
  • bankroll
  • bankrupt
  • bankrupted
  • basic
  • beggared
  • beggarly
  • big bucks
  • bill
  • bomb
  • boodle
  • bread
  • broke
  • bucks
  • bundle
  • bust
  • busted
  • cabbage
  • capital
  • cardinal
  • cash
  • cash-strapped
  • central
  • change
  • check
  • chief
  • chips
  • chump change
  • coin
  • coinage
  • compulsory
  • condition
  • consequential
  • constitutive
  • critical
  • crucial
  • currency
  • dead presidents
  • demand
  • depressed
  • deprived
  • desideration
  • desideratum
  • destitute
  • dibs
  • dime
  • dirt-poor
  • disadvantaged
  • dispossessed
  • distressed
  • dollar
  • dough
  • down-and-out
  • draft
  • earth
  • edge
  • essential
  • famished
  • finances
  • folding money
  • foremost
  • fortune
  • fundamental
  • funds
  • gold
  • green
  • greenback
  • hand-to-mouth
  • hard up
  • hardscrabble
  • impecunious
  • imperative
  • important
  • impoverished
  • indigent
  • indispensable
  • insistent
  • insolvent
  • integral
  • jack
  • kale
  • key
  • leading
  • legal tender
  • lolly
  • long green
  • loot
  • low
  • lucre
  • mad money
  • main
  • major
  • mandatory
  • material
  • meaningful
  • means
  • megabucks
  • mint
  • mite
  • momentous
  • money
  • money order
  • moola
  • moolah
  • must
  • must-have
  • necessary
  • necessitous
  • necessity
  • need
  • needed
  • needy
  • nonelective
  • note
  • obligatory
  • of the essence
  • opulence
  • organic
  • out at elbows
  • out at the elbows
  • out of pocket
  • packet
  • paper money
  • pauperized
  • peanuts
  • pelf
  • penniless
  • penurious
  • persistent
  • petty cash
  • pile
  • pin money
  • pinched
  • pittance
  • plus
  • pocket money
  • poor
  • poorish
  • possessionless
  • pot
  • poverty-stricken
  • precondition
  • prerequisite
  • pressing
  • principal
  • promissory note
  • reduced
  • required
  • requirement
  • requisite
  • resources
  • riches
  • right-hand
  • roll
  • ruined
  • scratch
  • scrip
  • shekalim
  • shekelim
  • shekels
  • sheqalim
  • sheqels
  • shoestring
  • short
  • significant
  • sine qua non
  • skint
  • specie
  • spending money
  • straitened
  • substantial
  • tapped out
  • tender
  • threadbare
  • treasure
  • unaffluent
  • underprivileged
  • urgent
  • vital
  • wad
  • wallet
  • wampum
  • wanted
  • wealth
  • weighty
  • wherewithal
  • wish

famished

  • bankrupt
  • bankrupted
  • beggared
  • beggarly
  • broke
  • bust
  • busted
  • cash-strapped
  • could eat a horse
  • depressed
  • deprived
  • destitute
  • dirt-poor
  • disadvantaged
  • dispossessed
  • distressed
  • dog-hungry
  • down-and-out
  • empty
  • flying light
  • gluttonous
  • gormandizing
  • greedy
  • hand-to-mouth
  • hard up
  • hardscrabble
  • having the munchies
  • hoggish
  • hollow
  • hungering
  • hungry
  • impecunious
  • impoverished
  • indigent
  • insatiable
  • insolvent
  • low
  • malnourished
  • necessitous
  • needful
  • needy
  • out at elbows
  • out at the elbows
  • out of pocket
  • pauperized
  • peckish
  • penniless
  • penurious
  • piggish
  • piggy
  • pinched
  • poor
  • poorish
  • possessionless
  • poverty-stricken
  • rapacious
  • ravening
  • ravenous
  • reduced
  • ruined
  • short
  • skint
  • starved
  • starved to death
  • starving
  • straitened
  • tapped out
  • threadbare
  • unaffluent
  • underfed
  • undernourished
  • underprivileged
  • voracious
  • wolfish

needy

  • bankrupt
  • bankrupted
  • beggared
  • beggarly
  • broke
  • bust
  • busted
  • cash-strapped
  • dead broke
  • depressed
  • deprived
  • destitute
  • dirt poor
  • dirt-poor
  • disadvantaged
  • dispossessed
  • distressed
  • down to last cent
  • down-and-out
  • down-at-heel
  • famished
  • flat
  • hand-to-mouth
  • hard up
  • hardscrabble
  • impecunious
  • impoverished
  • indigent
  • insolvent
  • low
  • necessitous
  • needful
  • out at elbows
  • out at the elbows
  • out of pocket
  • pauperized
  • penniless
  • penurious
  • pinched
  • poor
  • poorish
  • possessionless
  • poverty-stricken
  • reduced
  • ruined
  • short
  • skint
  • straitened
  • tapped out
  • threadbare
  • unaffluent
  • underprivileged
  • unprosperous

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