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If someone is impecunious, they have very little money, and this has often been true for a long stretch, not just this week. It is a formal, slightly old-fashioned word. Writers like it because it sounds educated and a little funny at the same time: “an impecunious young poet” paints a picture of someone poor, perhaps charming, perhaps hopeless with money. You would not usually say this about a family in real hardship — it can sound too light, even . Everyday English just says poor or broke. Though actually, broke is often short-term; impecunious leans toward a longer, ongoing lack of money.
窮困的、囊中羞澀的（偏書面、帶點幽默；日常較常說「很窮」或「沒錢」）
組成im-（不、沒有）+ pecunious（有錢的）。From Latin pecūnia（money）+ -ōsus（full of）：not full of money.
同家族的字
- pecuniaryalso from Latin pecūnia, “money”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
impecuniousadj/ˌɪm.pəˈkjuː.ni.əs/
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Lacking money.
- When I, good friends, was called to the bar, I'd an appetite fresh and hearty, But I was, as many young barristers are, An impecunious party.
- "Then what became of her?" "Her? Which 'her'? The park is full of 'hers.'" "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff." "Not improbably. I presume she does sometimes take the air. And possibly she may be the happy owner of a Gainsborough hat with green feathers." "Don't be frivolous, please. She was in that victoria." "Then perhaps she was too impecunious to drive both ways."
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。