penniless

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

fauché

vide

sans le sou

sans-le-sou

désargenté

impécunieux

Synonymes

indigent

broke

moneyless

poor

needy

impecunious

destitute

poverty-stricken

hard up

in straitened circumstances

necessitous

impoverished

insolvent

penurious

pinched

pauperized

scanty

skint

unfunded

vacant

void

very poor

dire poverty

cleaned outless

extremely poor

without anything

quite poor

utterly destitute

belly-up

cleared out

bankrupt

without a penny

bare

broken

deprived

destitude

empty

flat

flat broke

flat out

hollow

in the red

light

miserable

out-of-pocket

pauper

Traductions

mittellos

parasız

senza un soldo

pobre

squattrinato

pelado

meteliksiz

άφραγκος

απένταρος

ohne einen Pfennig

مفلس

spiantato

blank

ohne Geld

poverissimo

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈpɛ.nɪ.ləs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: penyles

Appartenant à vieux norrois: penningalauss

In summary

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