Meaning and example
not having enough money to pay for necessities
The passage used "impecunious" to mean not having enough money to pay for necessities.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.215 places impecunious in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 58.6% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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variegationRare
- Known by
- 58.8%
variability in coloration
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- Known by
- 59.1%
(mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent
insectivorousRare
- Known by
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effronteryRare
- Known by
- 59.2%
audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
perspicaciousRare
- Known by
- 59.2%
acutely insightful and wise
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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