Penurious

a.	1.	Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly.
	2.	Not bountiful or liberal; scanty. Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. - C. Pitt.
	3.	Destitute of money; suffering extreme want.

Adj.	1.	penurious - not having enough money to pay for necessities Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched
	2.	penurious - excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence" Synonyms: parsimonious

bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, begrudging, cheap, chintzy, destitute, dirt, flat broke, grudging, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, mean, mingy, near, necessitous, needy, niggard, niggardly, penniless, penny-pinching, pinchpenny, poor, poverty-stricken, shabby, sordid, thrifty, tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, ungenerous