different between impoverished vs impecunious
impoverished
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?p?v????t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?p?v(?)???t/
- Hyphenation: im?pov?er?ished
Adjective
impoverished (comparative more impoverished, superlative most impoverished)
- Reduced to poverty.
- Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:impoverished
Derived terms
- impoverishedly
- impoverishedness
Translations
Verb
impoverished
- simple past tense and past participle of impoverish
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impecunious
English
Etymology
From im- +? pecunious, from Latin pec?ni?sus, from pec?nia (“money”) + -?sus (“full of”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /??m.p??kju?.ni.?s/, /??m.p??kju?.ni.?s/
- Rhymes: -u?ni?s
Adjective
impecunious (not comparable)
- lacking money [from 1596]
- 1875 March 25, William S. Gilbert, Trial by Jury:
- When I, good friends, was called to the bar,
- I'd an appetite fresh and hearty,
- But I was, as many young barristers are,
- An impecunious party.
- February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183:
- "Then what became of her?"
- "Her? Which 'her'? The park is full of 'hers.'"
- "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."
- "Not improbably. I presume she does sometimes take the air. And possibly she may be the happy owner of a Gainsborough hat with green feathers."
- "Don't be frivolous, please. She was in that victoria."
- "Then perhaps she was too impecunious to drive both ways."
- 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, "Leave it to Jeeves" in My Man Jeeves:
- [I]t would be a simple matter, sir, to find some impecunious author who would be glad to do the actual composition of the volume for a small fee.
- 1875 March 25, William S. Gilbert, Trial by Jury:
Synonyms
- (lacking money): poor, penniless
- See also Thesaurus:impoverished
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