[{"word":"penurious","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"adjective","definitions":[{"definition":"Miserly; excessively cheap.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof."},{"definition":"Not bountiful; thin; scant.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth."},{"definition":"Impoverished; wanting for money.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly."}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/penurious"]}]