Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpɛ.nɪ.ləs/
penniless (not comparable)
- Lacking even the smallest amount of money.
- Synonyms: farthingless
- 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.
- French: sans le sou
- German: mittellos, ohne Geld, ohne einen Pfennig
- Italian: spiantato, squattrinato, scannato
- Portuguese: paupérrimo
- Russian: безде́нежный
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