1500-1600pecunious ‘rich’(14-19 centuries), from Latinpecunia ‘money’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
a gifted but impecunious painter
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Brown Institution trust funds were never adequate, but Twort preferred impecunious independence.
For an impecunious woman of twenty-nine, the gulf was unbridgeable.
He was that rare thing in any society, especially in an impecunious society under arms: a leader who was loved.
It is obvious that Mr. Mahmoud was impecunious.
It was shown that translation work is undertaken even for impecunious clients.
There is likely to be tension between landlord and tenant, between large landowners and impecunious peasants.
This warned the inhabitants that the average infantryman, in spite of his glamorous uniform, was lowly paid and impecunious.
With his Yorkshireman's eye for economy he was soon suggesting that the more impecunious aeronauts might seriously consider the process.
having very little money, especially over a long period – sometimes used humorously: He came from a respectable if impecunious family.—impecuniously adverb—impecuniousness noun [uncountable]