For one thing, I'm penniless; for another, I don't have the time.
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Penniless
//ˈpɛ.nɪ.ləs//
Synonyms for "penniless" (75 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (23)
Adjective(16 words)
Adjective(2 words)
Related words (37)
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 25 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- pennieloos adj (utterly without money)
Arabic
1 entries- فقير adj (utterly without money)
Bengali
2 entries- কপর্দকশূন্য adj (utterly without money)
- নিকড়িয়া adj (utterly without money)
Breton
1 entries- didra adj (utterly without money)
Bulgarian
1 entries- безпаричен adj (utterly without money)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 一文不名 adj (utterly without money)
- 一貧如洗 /一贫如洗 adj (utterly without money)
- 不名一文 adj (utterly without money)
- 囊空如洗 adj (utterly without money)
Esperanto
1 entries- senmona adj (utterly without money)
Finnish
1 entries- pennitön adj (utterly without money)
French
1 entries- sans le sou adj (utterly without money)
German
3 entries- mittellos adj (utterly without money)
- ohne Geld adj (utterly without money)
- ohne einen Pfennig adj (utterly without money)
Greek
1 entries- απένταρος adj (utterly without money)
Hindi
1 entries- निकौड़िया adj (utterly without money)
Hungarian
1 entries- nincstelen adj (utterly without money)
Indonesian
2 entries- fakir adj (utterly without money)
- melarat adj (utterly without money)
Italian
3 entries- scannato adj (utterly without money)
- spiantato adj (utterly without money)
- squattrinato adj (utterly without money)
Japanese
3 entries- 一文無し adj (utterly without money)
- 文無し adj (utterly without money)
- 無一文 adj (utterly without money)
Korean
1 entries- 무일푼인 adj (utterly without money)
Malay
1 entries- fakir adj (utterly without money)
Norwegian
1 entries- pengelens adj (utterly without money)
Polish
1 entries- bez grosza przy duszy adj (utterly without money)
Portuguese
1 entries- paupérrimo adj (utterly without money)
Russian
4 entries- без гроша́ adj (utterly without money)
- без копе́йки adj (utterly without money)
- безде́нежный adj (utterly without money)
- на мели́ adj (utterly without money)
Spanish
1 entries- miserable adj (utterly without money)
Ukrainian
2 entries- без гро́шей adj (utterly without money)
- безгрошови́й adj (utterly without money)
Volapük
2 entries- nenmonik adj (utterly without money)
- nenpänidik adj (utterly without money)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
The failure in business left me penniless.
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His failure in business left him penniless.
Source: tatoeba (298303)
The problem is that he is penniless.
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