Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

propertyless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: prop-erty-less
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Without property—things owned.

adj

Having no properties—attributes or abstract qualities associated with an object.

Example Sentences

"How is it, then, that they are obliged to remain homeless, landless, propertyless, resourceless?"
"For the greatest lunacy of all is that not one of them can see the smallest reason why any human being should be allowed to live unless in addition to supporting himself he can produce a privately appropriable profit for a shareholder or a rent for a landlord. Why, they argue, should anyone organize the work of propertyless men merely to produce their own food?"

Etymology

Etymology tree English property Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English propertyless From property + -less.

Derived Forms

propertylessness

Synonyms

wage-earning working-class blue-collar

Questions

What does propertyless mean?: Without property—things owned.
Where does propertyless come from?: Etymology tree English property Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English propertyless From property + -less.

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