English-Thai Dictionary

impecunious

ADJ อัตคัด (คำ ทางการ  ฝืดเคือง  ขัดสน  penniless poor aud-ta-kad

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

IMPECUNIOUS

Im "pe *cu "ni *ous, a. Etym: [L. im- not + pecunia money: cf. F.impécunieux.]

 

Defn: Not having money; habitually without money; poor. An impecunious creature. B. Jonson.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

impecunious

im pe cu ni ous |ˌimpəˈkyo͞onēəs ˈˌɪmpəˈkjuniəs | ▶adjective having little or no money: a titled but impecunious family. DERIVATIVES im pe cu ni os i ty |-ˌkyo͞onēˈäsitē |noun, im pe cu ni ous ness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from in- 1 ‘not ’ + obsolete pecunious ‘having money, wealthy ’ (from Latin pecuniosus, from pecunia ‘money ’).

 

Oxford Dictionary

impecunious

impecunious |ˌɪmpɪˈkjuːnɪəs | ▶adjective having little or no money: a titled but impecunious family. DERIVATIVES impecuniosity |-ˈɒsɪti |noun, impecuniousness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from in- 1 ‘not ’ + obsolete pecunious ‘having money, wealthy ’ (from Latin pecuniosus, from pecunia ‘money ’).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

impecunious

impecunious adjective she left Evansville to escape the solicitations of her impecunious relatives: penniless, poor, impoverished, indigent, insolvent, hard up, poverty-stricken, needy, destitute; in straitened circumstances, unable to make ends meet; informal (flat ) broke, strapped (for cash ); formal penurious. ANTONYMS wealthy.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

impecunious

impecunious adjective she came from a respectable but impecunious family: penniless, penurious, in penury, poor, impoverished, indigent, insolvent, moneyless, hard up, poverty-stricken, needy, in need, in want, destitute; poor as a church mouse, without a sou, in straitened circumstances, on one's beam ends, unable to make ends meet; Brit. on the breadline, without a penny (to one's name ); informal broke, flat broke, strapped for cash, cleaned out, strapped, on one's uppers, without two pennies /brass farthings to rub together; Brit. informal skint, boracic, stony broke, in Queer Street; N. Amer. informal stone broke; rare pauperized, beggared. ANTONYMS wealthy.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

impecunious

im pe cu ni ous /ɪ̀mpɪkjúːniəs /形容詞 ｟かたく ｠金のない, 無一文の, 貧乏な (→poor ).～ly 副詞 ～ness , ì m pe c ù ni ó s i ty 名詞