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poundless

poundless adjective: without pounds (currency).

Adjective

poundless (not comparable)

  1. Without pounds (currency).
    • I would only the Book were an Epic, a Dante, or undying thing, that New England might boast in after times of this feat of hers; and put stupid, poundless, and penniless Old England to the blush about it!1886, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Eliot Norton, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, volume 1, page 177

Origin of poundless

From pound + -less.

Questions about poundless

What does poundless mean?
Poundless means without pounds (currency).
What part of speech is poundless?
Poundless is an adjective.

Words near poundless in the dictionary

  1. poundingly
  2. poundings
  3. poundkeeper
  4. poundkeepers
  5. Poundland
  6. poundless
  7. Poundlike
  8. poundmaker
  9. poundmakers
  10. poundman
  11. poundmaster

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