Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of money; rich; wealthy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Abounding in money; wealthy; rich.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective With money, wealthy; financially independent.
  • adjective figuratively rich (of quality, etc.)

Etymologies

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Ultimately from Latin pecūnia ("money").

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Examples

  • In Southport District Court, they argued he was a "pecunious" penniless New Zealander with no formal ties to Australia and should be ordered to pay the money as a safeguard.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • With the burden of fund-raising gone, incumbents -- whose salary taxpayers pay anyway -- could spend their time actually governing and legislating for their constituents, rather than hosting $1,000 luncheons and groveling at the feet of the most pecunious lobbyist bundlers and donors.

    Stuart Whatley: This Side of Democracy 2010

  • With the burden of fund-raising gone, incumbents -- whose salary taxpayers pay anyway -- could spend their time actually governing and legislating for their constituents, rather than hosting $1,000 luncheons and groveling at the feet of the most pecunious lobbyist bundlers and donors.

    Stuart Whatley: This Side of Democracy 2010

  • Humanity has been embroiled in an epic struggle between the pecunious and impoverished since it developed agriculture, abandoned nomadism, and began the acquisition of wealth.

    Jesus Wouldn't Bomb a Soul: 2007

  • Aside from the inclusion of our pecunious Zionist friends, the essence of the leadership in the United States has changed little.

    If You Hate America So Much, Get the Hell Out! 2007

  • Others, such as John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, harbored contempt for populist notions and pressed for a government dominated by pecunious individuals.

    Corrode Your Conformity 2006

  • Working in unison according to the spiritual principles embodied by Jesus Christ in the Synoptic Gospels, the poor, the working class, and the besieged middle class had finally renounced their allegiance to their pecunious over-lords.

    Unleashing the Christ Within:Last Hope for the Moribund Soul of a Nation? 2006

  • Like eager equestrians breaking green horses, the mass media endeavor to provide the pecunious stratum of society with obedient beasts of burden.

    Hell Awaits, America: "Mass Manipulation, Blissful Psychosis, and 7 Easy Ways to Achieve Damnation" 2006

  • Virtually every member of humanity barring the pecunious class faces a brutal dilemma.

    Milton Lost: Can We Regain Paradise? 2006

  • Indeed, I'm turning a gimlet-eyed glare on my poor furniture, which--aside from the thirty bookcases, all but one solid oak or pine**--just barely clears the "pecunious graduate student" level.

    Warning: crass materialism ahead! 2005

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  • Abounding in money; wealthy; rich.

    May 15, 2008