1. (

• hard_up ,
• impecunious ,
• in_straitened_circumstances ,
• penniless ,
• penurious ,
• pinched

) not having enough money to pay for necessities ;

2. (

• parsimonious ,
• penurious

) excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner;