penniless

English

penniless (not comparable)

Lacking even the smallest amount of money.
- 1889, Horatio Alger, Driven From Home, ch. 10:
  A dollar and a quarter seems a small sum, but if you are absolutely penniless it might as well be a thousand.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 17, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
  This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.

utterly without money

Breton: didra (br)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 一貧如洗 (zh), 一贫如洗 (zh) (yīpínrúxǐ), 身無分文, 身无分文 (shēnwúfēnwén), 囊空如洗 (zh) (nángkōngrúxǐ), 不名一文 (zh) (bùmíngyīwén), 一文不名 (zh) (yīwénbùmíng)
Finnish: pennitön (fi)
French: sans le sou (fr)
German: mittellos (de), ohne Geld, ohne einen Pfennig
Indonesian: melarat (id)

Italian: spiantato (it), squattrinato (it), scannato (it)
Japanese: 一文無し (いちもんなし, ichimonnashi), 無一文 (むいちもん, muichimon), 文無し (もんなし, monnashi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pengelens (no)
Polish: bez grosza przy duszy (pl)
Portuguese: paupérrimo (pt)
Russian: безде́нежный (ru) (bezdénežnyj), без гроша́ (bez grošá), без копе́йки (bez kopéjki), на мели́ (ru) (na melí)
Volapük: nenpänidik, nenmonik

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