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adj- Poor, impoverished.

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Usage examples (13)
  • Others milled there, as fortuneless and disinterested as I.
  • I wish that I were old and ugly, fortuneless and an outcast -- or dead.
  • “No wonder,” he thought, “if, courted by the son of a proud and powerful baron, she can no longer spare a word or look to the poor fortuneless page.”
  • What could I, helpless, houseless, fortuneless, be but a weight upon that buoyancy and ambition of eminence which marks superior natures for the superior honours of life.
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