impecuniousness
/'impi,kju:ni'ɔsiti/ Cách viết khác : (impecuniousness) /,impi'kju:njəsnis/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The state of having little or no money; poverty: "Impecuniousness" refers to a condition of being without financial means, often implying a chronic or habitual lack of funds.
Usage and Examples
- Noun:
- His years of travel were marked by a cheerful impecuniousness. (He traveled for years while consistently having very little money.)
- The scholarship was a lifeline, rescuing her from the impecuniousness that threatened her studies. (The scholarship saved her from the state of poverty that endangered her education.)
Advanced Usage
- "to be reduced to impecuniousness": to be brought into a state of poverty.
- After the business failed, the family was reduced to impecuniousness.
- Used in formal or literary contexts to describe a person's financial condition more elegantly than the word "poverty."
Variants and Related Words
- Impecunious (adj): having little or no money.
- The impecunious artist lived in a small attic studio.
- Pecuniary (adj): relating to or consisting of money.
- He had no pecuniary interest in the deal.
Synonyms
- Poverty: the state of being extremely poor.
- Pennilessness: the condition of having no money at all.
- Indigence: a state of extreme poverty.
- Destitution: poverty so extreme that one lacks the means to provide for oneself.
Antonyms
- Affluence: the state of having a great deal of money; wealth.
- Opulence: great wealth or luxuriousness.
- Prosperity: the state of being successful, especially in financial terms.
Noun
- a state of lacking money