penniless
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Synonyms & Antonyms for penniless
Synonyms
beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-poor, down-and-out, famished, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, skint [chiefly British], threadbare
Antonyms
affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
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Two buddies travel to Mexico to rescue their friend after a carjacker leaves him naked, penniless and stranded in the desert. — Los Angeles Times, "Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019," 11 Aug. 2019 Robben and Diarra leaving didn't age well, neither did the purchase and penniless release of Veron. — SI.com, "Ranking Every Chelsea Summer Transfer Window Since 2002," 10 Aug. 2019 As recently as the 2011/12 season both of the city’s league clubs found themselves in the third tier and practically penniless. — SI.com, "Sheffield United's Premier League Return Can Reinvigorate Football in the Steel City," 13 July 2019 Some of our deepest satisfaction as a country comes from watching penniless immigrants arrive on our shores, buy into our values and thrive. — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, "Ilhan Omar says Fox News’ Tucker Carlson is ‘a racist fool’ after he called her living proof U.S. immigration laws are ‘dangerous’," 10 July 2019 Some of our deepest satisfaction as a country comes from watching penniless immigrants arrive on our shores, buy into our values, and thrive. — Alex Horton, Washington Post, "Ilhan Omar calls Tucker Carlson a ‘racist fool’ after he describes her as a threat to U.S.," 10 July 2019 His lifelong project, in many ways, is an attempt to reconcile those two people: the penniless, bumbling foreigner who speaks atrocious English, and the cocksure Sarajevan who was once intelligent and cool and desirable—who was somebody. — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, "Aleksandar Hemon’s Lost Eden," 6 June 2019 Deo, as he is known, found a way out of the country and to New York City, arriving nearly penniless and knowing no one nor a word of English. — Ben Cramer, Town & Country, "The Man Who Went From Being Homeless to Saving a Nation," 28 Apr. 2017 The country is in shambles — saddled with a rapidly atrophying economy and a penniless government. — Luke.winkie, Vox, "Inside Venezuela’s YouTube prank economy," 12 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'penniless.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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