Hyphenation of penurious

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word penurious? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

penu-ri-ous

Definitions of penurious:

1.	Not having enough money to pay for necessities
2.	Excessively unwilling to spend Parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses Lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence

Synonyms of penurious:

adj	hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched, poor
adj	parsimonious, stingy, ungenerous

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.