Definition of PENNILESS

penniless

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

  • not having enough money to pay for necessities

Adj

  • Lacking even the smallest amount of money.
  • Abstaining from the use of penny coins, despite having fully decimalized currency, via rounding of cash transactions (but not necessarily of cashless ones).

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English penyles, penylees; equivalent to penny + -less. Compare Old Norse penningalauss (“penniless”).

Synonyms

;, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, farthingless, feeling the pinch, flat, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in straitened circumstances, indigent, insolvent, lower-class, moneyless, necessitous, needy, nillionaire, oofless, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, poor as Job, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, shillingless, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, threadbare, unwealthy, wealthless

Scrabble Score: 11

penniless is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
penniless is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
penniless is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

penniless is a valid Words With Friends word