penniless
adj/ˈpɛ.nɪ.ləs/
Etymology
From Middle English penyles, penylees; equivalent to penny + -less. Compare Old Norse penningalauss (“penniless”).
- inherited from penyles
Definitions
Lacking even the smallest amount of money.
- In societies without national insurance of any kind, almshouses are the last refuge of penniless people.
- A dollar and a quarter seems a small sum, but if you are absolutely penniless it might as well be a thousand.
Of a country's system of money, abstaining from the use of penny coins, despite having…
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).
- Canada became a penniless country in 2013 simply by rounding its cash transactions to the nearest nickel but otherwise not changing anything.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for penniless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA