Failed and Penniless

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Penniless and failed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Penniless" instead an adjective "Failed".

Nearby Words: fail, failure, failing

Penniless adjective - Lacking money or material possessions.

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Failed and penniless are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Failed" instead an adjective "Penniless".

It transpires that the man's stock investments all failed, so he is penniless, but the visitor who explains this to him has paid for the revival process.

Source: Human Popsicle
Jacob is left penniless after his parents' death because the bank that contained their savings failed and his father, also a veterinarian, let the neighbors pay him in eggs and beans because they didn't have money and he couldn't bear to see animals suffer.

Source: Literature / Water for Elephants

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