Word Meanings - PENNILESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. -- Pen"ni*less*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PENNILESS)

• Insolvent
• Bankrupt
• ruined
• penniless
• beggared
• Poor
• Indigent
• moneyless
• impecunious
• weak
• meagre
• insufficient
• deficient
• faulty
• unsatisfactory
• inconsiderable
• thin
• scanty
• bald

Related words: (words related to PENNILESS)

• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• IMPECUNIOUS
  Not having money; habitually without money; poor. An impecunious creature. B. Jonson.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• DEFICIENT
  Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was
• BANKRUPT
  A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone. 2. A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.
• PENNILESS
  Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. -- Pen"ni*less*ness, n.
• BEGGAR
  1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner. 2. One who makes it his business to ask alms. 3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use. 4. One who assumes in argument
• INDIGENT
  stand in need of, fr. OL. indu + L. egere to be needy, 1. Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. Bacon. 2. Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous. Indigent faint souls
• BEGGAR'S TICKS
  The bur marigold and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
• RUIN
  1. The act of falling or tumbling down; fall. "His ruin startled the other steeds." Chapman. 2. Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or
• INSOLVENT
  Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor. Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner; as, an insolvent
• BEGGAR'S LICE
  The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.
• INCONSIDERABLE
  Not considerable; unworthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial; as, an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity, degree, value, or sum. "The baser scum and inconsiderable dregs of Rome." Stepney. -- In`con*sid"er*a*ble*ness,
• RUINIFORM
  Having the appearance of ruins, or of the ruins of houses; -- said of certain minerals.
• BANKRUPTCY
  1. The state of being actually or legally bankrupt. 2. The act or process of becoming a bankrupt. 3. Complete loss; -- followed by of.
• BEGGARLINESS
  The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
• SCANTY
  1. Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant. his dominions were very narrow and scanty. Locke. Now scantier limits the proud arch confine. Pope. 2. Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words;
• RUINATION
  The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.
• RUINER
  One who, or that which, ruins.
• RUINOUS
  1. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. After a night of storm so ruinous. Milton. 2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
• PRUINOUS
  Frosty; pruinose.
• BULLBEGGAR
  Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort .
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• PRUINATE
  See PRUINOSE
• PRUINOSE
  Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.
• INDEFICIENT
  Not deficient; full. Brighter than the sun, and indeficient as the light of heaven. Jer. Taylor.