penniless

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Lacking even the smallest amount of money. figuratively,not-comparable
    — In societies without national insurance of any kind, almshouses are the last refuge of penniless people.
  2. Of a country's system of money, abstaining from the use of penny coins, despite having fully decimalized currency, by means of rounding of cash transactions (but not necessarily of cashless ones). not-comparable
    — Canada became a penniless country in 2013 simply by rounding its cash transactions to the nearest nickel but otherwise not changing anything.

词形变化

pennyless alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
penniless-bench pennilessly pennilessness

词源

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