IMPECUNIOSITY Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

impecuniosity

noun

Definition of impecuniosity

as in poverty

the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions such was the level of my impecuniosity that I could not afford to eat at the cheapest greasy spoon

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Noun

But even as India opened its doors to foreign investment in the 1990s, igniting a middle-class boom, the country carried the stigma of poverty.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
But high turnover limited the program's reach, and no teaching corps—however committed—could erase the effects of poverty, housing instability, or unequal access to opportunity.

— Sonia Murrow, Time, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of poverty

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But an agent may be harmed when its interests are thwarted, its autonomy denied or its existence ended without any pain or misery.

— Andréa Morris, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Things get increasingly bleak, as the family dog’s heart medicine runs out and Jason has to put him out of his misery, and then — in doomsday prepper mode — carves up the body and puts it in the freezer just in case food gets dire.

— William Earl, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026

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