skint
adjective
ˈskint 
chiefly British
: without money : penniless
However skint I am, I always pay my services bills …
Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)I was skint by that time. It was a shame. … Still, who needs money when you're looking good? Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess
Synonyms
- beggared
- beggarly
- broke
- destitute
- dirt-poor
- down-and-out
- famished
- hard up
- impecunious
- impoverished
- indigent
- necessitous
- needful
- needy
- pauperized
- penniless
- penurious
- poor
- poverty-stricken
- threadbare
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Example Sentences
an area of London where skint punk rockers would hang out
Word History
Etymology
alteration of skinned, past participle of skin entry 2
First Known Use
circa 1925, in the meaning defined above
skint
adjective
as in impoverished
lacking money or material possessions an area of London where skint punk rockers would hang out Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- impoverished
- poor
- broke
- penniless
- bankrupt
- beggared
- impecunious
- penurious
- deprived
- destitute
- indigent
- bankrupted
- depressed
- famished
- needy
- beggarly
- threadbare
- pauperized
- needful
- poverty-stricken
- necessitous
- insolvent
- dirt-poor
- down-and-out
- disadvantaged
- hard up
- distressed
- out at elbows
- out of pocket
- underprivileged
- out at the elbows
- straitened
- busted
- bust
- pinched
- down on one's luck
- ruined
- dispossessed
- poorish
- reduced
- short
- cash-strapped
- hardscrabble
- hand-to-mouth
- unaffluent
- low
- possessionless
- tapped out
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- wealthy
- rich
- affluent
- fat
- moneyed
- monied
- opulent
- flush
- well-off
- fat-cat
- well-heeled
- prosperous
- well-to-do
- comfortable
- deep-pocketed
- silk-stocking