Meaning and example
not having enough money to pay for necessities
The passage used "penurious" to mean not having enough money to pay for necessities.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -0.070 places penurious in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 47.2% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
usuriousVery rare
- Known by
- 47.1%
greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
nectarousVery rare
- Known by
- 46.8%
extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant
atavismVery rare
- Known by
- 47.9%
a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
inimicalVery rare
- Known by
- 48%
not friendly
isomerismVery rare
- Known by
- 48.1%
the state of being an isomer; the complex of chemical and physical phenomena characteristic of isomers
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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