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What is "penniless" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does penniless mean in English? Meaning of penniless definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "penniless" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "penniless": not having enough money to pay for necessities

Adjective

  • Meaning: not having enough money to pay for necessities
  • Synonyms: hard up impecunious in straitened circumstances penniless penurious pinched
  • Similar: poor
  • Adjective: Not having a penny; utterly impoverished; extremely poor. 1889, Horatio Alger, Driven From Home, ch. 10: A dollar and a quarter seems a small sum, but if you are absolutely penniless it might as well be a thousand. 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 17, The Mirror and the Lamp: This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.1889, Horatio Alger, Driven From Home, ch. 10: A dollar and a quarter seems a small sum, but if you are absolutely penniless it might as well be a thousand.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 17, The Mirror and the Lamp: This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.

    • Synonyms:

    bankrupt, needy, broke, impoverished, destitute, indigent, clean, flat, impecunious, lacking, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, ruined, strapped, necessitous, over a barrel, cleaned out, dead broke, dirt poor, down to last penny, flat broke, in the gutter, moneyless, on last leg, tapped out, without a dime,

    Antonyms:

    solvent, wealthy, rich, affluent,

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