impecuniosity
State of poverty
Impecuniosity is the state of having little or no money—a formal or literary way of describing poverty or financial hardship.
The word carries a slightly genteel tone, as if softening the bluntness of being broke: His impecuniosity forced him to rely on the generosity of friends.
The adjective is impecunious.
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- pauperismCondition of being destitute
- privationLack of necessities
want · neediness · pennilessness · beggary · insolvency · bankruptcy · hardship · debt
Labored effort against resistance
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- privationLack of necessities
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
difficulty · austerity · survival · straitened circumstances · distress · tribulation · tough times · pinch
Deficiency or absence
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- paucityInsufficiency of amount
- deficitAmount still owed
insufficiency · meagerness · sparsity · inadequacy · shortfall · undersupply · exiguity · underfunding
Careful use of resources
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
scrimping · cost-cutting · sparing · tightfistedness · abstemiousness · belt-tightening · savings · prudence
destitution
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- pauperismCondition of being destitute
privation · want · neediness · pennilessness · beggary · insolvency · bankruptcy · hardship · debt · indebtedness
struggle
Labored effort against resistance
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- privationLack of necessities
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
deprivation · difficulty · austerity · survival · straitened circumstances · distress · tribulation · tough times · pinch · squeeze
lack
Deficiency or absence
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- paucityInsufficiency of amount
deficit · insufficiency · meagerness · sparsity · inadequacy · shortfall · undersupply · exiguity · underfunding · thinness
thrift
Careful use of resources
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
penny-pinching · scrimping · cost-cutting · sparing · tightfistedness · abstemiousness · belt-tightening · savings · prudence · resourcefulness
impecuniositywealth
Abundance of valuable resources
affluence · richness · prosperity · wealthiness · opulence
impecunious, pecuniary, peculate, impecuniousness, peculation, nonpecuniary