emptyhanded
About 0.06 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective With nothing in one's hands.
- adjective Impoverished; having no money or resources.
- adjective Having nothing to offer.
- adjective Having received or acquired nothing.
- adjective Having nothing to offer; unable to give what was promised.
- adjective Unarmed.
Similar words
empty-handed empty freehanded dry-handed handless empty as a pauper's purse barehanded cashless coinless hard up
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