moneylessadj.
/ˈmʌnɪlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmənilᵻs/ Having no money.
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the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > lacking money
to the boneOE
silverlessc1325
pennilessc1330
moneylessc1400
impecunious1596
crossless1600
penceless1605
unmoneyed1606
coinless1614
emptya1643
out of pocket1679
money-bound1710
broke1716
embarrassed1744
stiver cramped1785
plackless1786
taper1789
poundlessa1794
shillingless1797
unpennied1804
fundless1809
impecuniary1814
hard up1821
soldier-thighed1825
cashless1833
stiverless1839
fly-blown1853
strapped1857
stick1859
tight1859
stone-broke1886
stony1886
oofless1888
stony-broke1890
motherless1906
penny-pinched1918
skinned1924
skint1925
on the beach1935
potless1936
boracic1959
uptight1967
brassic1982
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. x. 110 (MED) Moneyles þei walke..Ryght as Peter dude and Paul.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xviv That pore men and monyles may hir onys se.
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 58 Where bribery and corruption solicits, paltring the free and monilesse power of discipline with a carnall satisfaction by the purse.
1712 Spectator No. 437. ⁋1 She marries..a Moneyless Girl to a Man of Fortune.
1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 27 Jan. in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 112 He, poor young man, was moneyles and freindles.
1841 R. W. Emerson Man the Reformer in Dial Apr. 532 We are first thoughtless, and then find that we are moneyless.
1879 Austral. Grazier's Guide (S. W. Silver & Co.) I. i. 11 The third..will turn him out, in marvellous quick time, landless, moneyless, discouraged.
1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South ii. i. 129 This moneyless, passion-engrossed world.
1990 J. Trollope Passionate Man v. 58 Like some gifted, exhausted, moneyless Edith Wharton heroine she was absolutely sick of the brave struggle of managing on her own.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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