moneyless
Adjective
- not based on the possession of money
- "a moneyless economy"
Adjective Satellite
- having no money
- "virtually moneyless rural regions"
Adj
- Having no (or very little) money.
- That does not use money as a means of exchange.
Examples
- In eras when trade was largely by barter and taxes were usually paid in kind, moneyless transactions could constitute a large percentage of a national economy.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English moneyeles, equivalent to money + -less.
Synonyms
;, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, feeling the pinch, flat, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, indigent, insolvent, lower-class, necessitous, needy, oofless, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as Job, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, shillingless, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, threadbare, unwealthy, wealthless
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 14
moneyless: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmoneyless: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
moneyless: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary