Synonyms of the word

impecunious

• adj. Lacking money.

penniless

• adj. Not having a penny; utterly impoverished; extremely poor.

penurious

• adj. Miserly; excessively cheap.
• adj. Not bountiful; thin; scant.
• adj. Impoverished; wanting for money.

pinched

• v. simple past tense and past participle of pinch.
• adj. Very thin.
• adj. (of a person or their face) tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger.
• adj. Compressed.

poor

• adj. With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
• adj. Of low quality.
• adj. Used to express pity.
• adj. Deficient in a specified way.
• adj. Inadequate, insufficient.
• adj. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
• n. (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.