penniless

Adjective Satellite

• not having enough money to pay for necessities

Adj

• Lacking even the smallest amount of money.
• Abstaining from the use of penny coins, despite having fully decimalized currency, via rounding of cash transactions (but not necessarily of cashless ones).

Examples

• Canada became a penniless country in 2013 simply by rounding its cash transactions to the nearest nickel but otherwise not changing anything.
• In a functioning digital economy, being cashless is far different from being penniless, because cash is merely one form of money; but some preppers hoard gold in case the system gets destroyed and cashlessness suddenly becomes pennilessness.
• In societies without national insurance of any kind, almshouses are the last refuge of penniless people.

Synonyms

hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penurious, pinched, ;, 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, farthingless, feeling the pinch, flat, impoverished, in need, indigent, insolvent, lower-class, moneyless, necessitous, needy, nillionaire, oofless, pauperized, penniless, 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