adj. 25B6; adjective (formal)
a penurious student : POOR, as poor as a church mouse, poverty-stricken, destitute, necessitous, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, needy, in need/want, badly off, in reduced/straitened circumstances, hard up, on one's beam-ends, unable to make ends meet, penniless, without a sou; Brit. on the breadline, without a penny (to one's name); informal (flat) broke, strapped for cash, on one's uppers; Brit. informal stony broke, skint, without a brass farthing, in Queer Street; N. Amer. informal stone broke.
a penurious old skinflint : MEAN, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, close-fisted, cheese-paring, Scrooge-like; informal stingy, mingy, tight, tight-fisted, money-grubbing; archaic near.
wealthy, generous.