penniless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: banking
business
hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
Etymology: From Middle English penyles, penylees; equivalent to penny + -less. Compare Old Norse penningalauss (“penniless”).
Base: penny
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: pennyless
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking even the smallest amount of money.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: In societies without national insurance of any kind, almshouses are the last refuge of penniless people.
In a functioning digital economy, being cashless is far different from being penniless, because cash is merely one form of money; but some preppers hoard gold in case the system gets destroyed and cashlessness suddenly becomes pennilessness.
A dollar and a quarter seems a small sum, but if you are absolutely penniless it might as well be a thousand.
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.
gloss: Of a country's system of money, abstaining from the use of penny coins, despite having fully decimalized currency, by means of rounding of cash transactions (but not necessarily of cashless ones).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Canada became a penniless country in 2013 simply by rounding its cash transactions to the nearest nickel but otherwise not changing anything.
Derived words: penniless-bench
pennilessly
pennilessness
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: pennieloos
lang: Arabic
word: فقير
lang: Bengali
word: নিকড়িয়া
roman: nikoṛiẏa
lang: Bengali
word: কপর্দকশূন্য
roman: kopordokśunno
lang: Breton
word: didra
lang: Bulgarian
word: безпаричен
roman: bezparičen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 一貧如洗 /一贫如洗
roman: yīpínrúxǐ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 身無分文 /身无分文
roman: shēnwúfēnwén
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 囊空如洗
roman: nángkōngrúxǐ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 不名一文
roman: bùmíngyīwén
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 一文不名
roman: yīwénbùmíng
lang: Esperanto
word: senmona
lang: Finnish
word: pennitön
lang: French
word: sans le sou
lang: German
word: mittellos
lang: German
word: ohne Geld
lang: German
word: ohne einen Pfennig
lang: Greek
word: απένταρος
roman: apéntaros
lang: Hindi
word: निकौड़िया
roman: nikauṛiyā
lang: Hungarian
word: nincstelen
lang: Indonesian
word: melarat
lang: Indonesian
word: fakir
lang: Italian
word: spiantato
lang: Italian
word: squattrinato
lang: Italian
word: scannato
lang: Japanese
word: 一文無し
roman: ichimonnashi
lang: Japanese
word: 無一文
roman: muichimon
lang: Japanese
word: 文無し
roman: monnashi
lang: Korean
word: 무일푼인
roman: mu'ilpun-in
lang: Macedonian
word: нема скршен денар
roman: nema skršen denar
lang: Malay
word: fakir
lang: Norwegian
word: pengelens
lang: Polish
word: bez grosza przy duszy
lang: Portuguese
word: paupérrimo
lang: Russian
word: безде́нежный
roman: bezdénežnyj
lang: Russian
word: без гроша́
roman: bez grošá
lang: Russian
word: без копе́йки
roman: bez kopéjki
lang: Russian
word: на мели́
roman: na melí
lang: Spanish
word: miserable
lang: Ukrainian
word: безгрошови́й
roman: bezhrošovýj
lang: Ukrainian
word: без гро́шей
roman: bez hróšej
lang: Volapük
word: nenpänidik
lang: Volapük
word: nenmonik