impecunious

adjective

she came from a respectable but impecunious family:

penniless, penurious, in penury, poor, impoverished, indigent, insolvent, moneyless, hard up, poverty-stricken, needy, in need, in want, destitute;

poor as a church mouse, without a sou, in straitened circumstances, on one's beam ends, unable to make ends meet;

British on the breadline, without a penny (to one's name);

informal broke, flat broke, strapped for cash, cleaned out, strapped, on one's uppers, without two pennies/brass farthings to rub together;

British, informal skint, boracic, stony broke, in Queer Street;

North American, informal stone broke;

rare pauperized, beggared.

▷antonyms wealthy.