pennyless
English
Adjective
pennyless (not comparable)
- Dated form of penniless, today used most often for the sense of "without using pennies" rather than "without money".
- 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 79:
- Three years had intervened, and how, in their pennyless state, could her mother have existed during this time?