pennyless

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A form of penniless — Lacking even the smallest amount of money.

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Meanings

adjectivepennyless (not comparable)
  1. datednot comparableDated form of penniless, today used most often for the sense of "without using pennies" rather than "without money".

    Three years had intervened, and how, in their pennyless state, could her mother have existed during this time?

    1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 79
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pennyless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pennyless

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“pennyless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pennyless. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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