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Pennyless vs Penniless - What's the difference?

pennyless | penniless |

As adjectives the difference between penniless and pennyless

is that penniless is not having a penny; utterly impoverished; extremely poor while pennyless is dated form of lang=en.

pennyless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • * (Mary Shelley)
    • Three years had intervened, and how, in their pennyless state, could her mother have existed during this time?

    penniless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not having a penny; utterly impoverished; extremely poor.
  • * 1889 , (Horatio Alger), Driven From Home , ch. 10:
    • A dollar and a quarter seems a small sum, but if you are absolutely penniless it might as well be a thousand.
  • *, chapter=17
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless , she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}

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