impecunious
Lacking all funds
Impecunious means having little or no money—a slightly formal or literary way of saying poor or broke.
The word often carries a tone of genteel poverty rather than destitution: an impecunious young artist, impecunious relatives always asking for loans.
It tends toward the humorous or ironic in contemporary use.
Completely without money
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
- destituteUtterly without means
- brokeLacking any funds
- bankruptUnable to repay debts
insolvent · penurious · pauperized · beggarly · hard-up · strapped · cash-strapped · skint
Careful use of resources
- economySystem of trade and production
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
- prudenceCareful, wise judgment
penny-pinching · scrimping · tightfisted · stingy · miserly · sparing · economizing · counting pennies
penniless
Completely without money
bankrupt · insolvent · penurious · pauperized · beggarly · hard-up · strapped · cash-strapped · skint · moneyless
thrift
Careful use of resources
- economySystem of trade and production
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
prudence · penny-pinching · scrimping · tightfisted · stingy · miserly · sparing · economizing · counting pennies · stretching dollars