moneyless
/ˈmʌniləs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That does not use money as a means of exchange.
Example Sentences
- "The result, say the few moneyless militants, is a divided national Indian leadership populated by Uncle Tomahawks, or “apples,” red on the outside, white on the inside."
- ""There's a lot of times I wished I would have died because I was pathetic," [Stewart] says matter of factly. "I guess I started digging a hole for myself and it got so bad I got homeless, moneyless, friendless. I just started covering myself up instead of climbing out of the hole.""
- "Near-synonym: nonmoney"
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: moneyeles
Inflected Forms
more moneyless (comparative)
most moneyless (superlative)