" penuriousness "

1: the quality or practice of being overly sparing with money;

  * e.g., " ... he daily practiced such penuriousness that few would have guessed that he was one of the state's wealthiest residents "

•  Synonyms : 

•  cheapness,

•  cheeseparing,

•  closeness,

•  miserliness,

•  parsimony,

•  penny-pinching,

•  pinching,

•  stinginess,

•  tightfistedness,

•  tightness

•  Antonyms : 

•  affluence,

•  opulence,

•  richness,

•  wealth,

•  wealthiness

2: the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions;

  * e.g., " ... the abject penuriousness of so many of the city's inhabitants should be a cause for concern "

•  Synonyms : 

•  beggary,

•  destituteness,

•  destitution,

•  impecuniosity,

•  impecuniousness,

•  impoverishment,

•  indigence,

•  necessity,

•  need,

•  neediness,

•  pauperism,

•  penury,

•  poorness,

•  poverty,

•  want

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: giving or sharing as little as possible;

  * e.g., " ... the company's penurious management could not be convinced of the need to earmark more money for research and development "

•  Synonyms : 

•  cheap,

•  chintzy,

•  close,

•  closefisted,

•  mean,

•  mingy,

•  miserly,

•  parsimonious,

•  penny-pinching,

•  pinching,

•  pinchpenny,

•  spare,

•  sparing,

•  stingy,

•  stinting,

•  tight,

•  tightfisted,

•  uncharitable,

•  ungenerous

•  Antonyms : 

•  bounteous,

•  bountiful,

•  charitable,

•  freehanded,

•  generous,

•  liberal,

•  munificent,

•  openhanded,

•  unsparing,

•  unstinting

2: lacking money or material possessions;

  * e.g., " ... the most penurious members of the community are forced to depend on the services of the food bank "

•  Synonyms : 

•  beggared,

•  beggarly,

•  broke,

•  destitute,

•  dirt-poor,

•  down-and-out,

•  famished,

•  hard up,

•  impecunious,

•  impoverished,

•  indigent,

•  necessitous,

•  needful,

•  needy,

•  pauperized,

•  penniless,

•  poor,

•  poverty-stricken,

•  skint,

•  threadbare

•  Antonyms : 

•  affluent,

•  deep-pocketed,

•  fat,

•  fat-cat,

•  flush,

•  moneyed,

•  opulent,

•  rich,

•  silk-stocking,

•  wealthy,

•  well-heeled,

•  well-off,

•  well-to-do