penniless

Word family

pen·ni·less /ˈpenɪləs/ adjectiveadj

POORsomeone who is penniless has no money 一文不名的，一贫如洗的 → broke

Uncle Charlie was jobless and penniless.

查理叔叔没有工作，一贫如洗。

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Examples from the Corpus

penniless• I don't want to go down in history as a great songwriter because I died penniless.• I had reached their house late at night from the train station, absolutely penniless.• Uncle Charlie was also with us now, and Uncle Charlie was jobless and penniless.• A group of deaf people were left penniless after their holiday was cancelled.• In the late Fifties and early Sixties these proved irresistible to a group of penniless artists looking for space for free.• Ruling over these penniless black workpeople was a society of cultivated, well-mannered whites, a powerful colonial aristocracy.• She died penniless, in 1951, of liver and heart failure.• He had gone from being a penniless student to become a multimillionaire.

From Longman Business Dictionary

pennilesspen·ni·less /ˈpenɪləs/ adjectiveadj

having no money

Many of the migrants arrive penniless.

Chinese

Syllable

Corpus

BNC: 18686 COCA: 19734

penniless

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB

VERBS

➤be, die一文不名；死時一貧如洗

◇He died penniless in Paris.他死在巴黎，一文不名。

➤find yourself發現自己一文不名

◇Laura found herself virtually penniless.勞拉發現自己幾乎一貧如洗。

➤leave sb使某人一文不名

◇The legal dispute left them penniless.這場法律糾紛使他們一貧如洗。

ADVERB

➤totally一貧如洗

BNC: 18686 COCA: 19734

penniless adj.
⇨ poor 1

BNC: 18686 COCA: 19734

penniless

Poor: poor, impoverished, penniless...