penniless
Senso (Inglese)
- (not-comparable) Lacking even the smallest amount of money.
- (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).
Concetti
sinonimi
in straitened circumstances
very poor
dire poverty
cleaned outless
extremely poor
without anything
quite poor
utterly destitute
without a penny
destitude
flat broke
Traduzioni
Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈpɛ.nɪ.ləs/
Etimologia (Inglese)
In summary
From Middle English penyles, penylees; equivalent to penny + -less. Compare Old Norse penningalauss (“penniless”).
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