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resourceless

  • a word derived from resource.
    resource
    noun
    a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.

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That's what Citroën has done with a new concept car designed in anticipation of a resourceless world, using cardboard instead of steel for those parts.

From Reuters Sep. 29, 2022

The school holidays had been going on for two and a half weeks already, and we were drained and resourceless from endless days of full-contact parenting.

From The New Yorker Mar. 27, 2017

O'Connor's solution is resourceless and unbelievable: Governor Charles, the realist, has his brother Phil, the idealist, committed to an insane asylum.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knew not what to say or do, but gazed in resourceless suspense at the strange figure she made.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

Had the formidable code of pretence, the daily affectation of dignity, the perpetual giving of good examples, reduced him to this shred of humanity, so timid, so resourceless?

From A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George