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What is another word for empty-handed?

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Adjective
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Feeling defeated due to lacking the expected result or outcome
defeated
frustrated
lacking
disappointed
discouraged
disheartened
disillusioned
unrewarded
wanting
with empty pockets
“After months of preparation and hard work, she returned home empty-handed, devastated by the failure to secure the job offer she had anticipated.”
Adjective
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Having below average income or lacking money to sufficiently live comfortably
poor
bankrupt
broke
moneyless
penniless
necessitous
beggarly
penurious
impecunious
indigent
needy
needful
destitute
underprivileged
deprived
bust
insolvent
strapped
fortuneless
skint
unprosperous
famished
threadbare
pauperized
beggared
as poor as a church mouse
badly off
bad off
behind eight ball
cleaned out
craptastic
dirt poor
dirt-poor
down and out
down-and-out
down at heel
flat broke
hard up
impoverished
in debt
in need
in penury
in reduced circumstances
in straitened circumstances
in the red
in want
low-income
low-paid
on one's beam-ends
on one's uppers
on the breadline
on the rocks
poverty-stricken
short of money
stone broke
stony broke
stony-broke
strapped for cash
truly needy
unable to make ends meet
without a penny
without a penny to one's name
without a sou
without two brass farthings to rub together
without two farthings to rub together
without two pennies to rub together
disadvantaged
flat
pinched
reduced
suffering
scanty
low
meagerUS
meagreUK
in Queer Street
ruined
out at elbows
distressed
out of pocket
down on luck
boracic
short
lacking
depressed
without a red cent
without a brass farthing
cashless
wanting
boracic lint
without a bean
straitened
dead broke
unable to keep the wolf from the door
tapped out
homeless
stony
busted
struggling
stone-broke
unfortunate
in the gutter
on skid row
without two pennies farthings to rub together
broken
rundown
derelict
neglected
unlucky
shabby
seedy
economically disadvantaged
have-not
cash-strapped
in distress
on the bread line
wiped out
in Chapter 11
up against it
in need of
over a barrel
without a dime
on one's beam ends
without a shot in one's locker
poor as a church mouse
on last leg
hard-pressed
down to last penny
in a bad way
economically deprived
financially disadvantaged
crippled
pathetic
abject
hurting
bankrupted
indebted
overdrawn
vagrant
vagabond
unmoneyed
impencunious
out of money
unfavored
finished
down-at-heel
down to last cent
in distressed circumstances
discriminated against
on a tight budget
denuded
bereft
forlorn
out of cash
underserved
dispossessed
on the streets
unaffluent
unprivileged
without money
on the skids
in the poorhouse
handicapped
miserably poor
financially poor
extremely poor
in great need
very poor
in dire circumstances
hapless
financially distressed
in financial difficulties
financially embarrassed
not having two pennies to rub together
not having two farthings to rub together
without means of support
short of cash
slummy
ill-supplied
ill-furnished
ghost
shanty
ghetto
run down
run-down
in dire straits
ill-fated
ill-starred
skid row
poverty-ridden
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Nearby Words
empty-handedly
empty-headed
empty-headedness
emptying
emptying out
emptyings
empty character
empty canvas
empty boast
empty balance account
empty area
empty
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