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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

Then the evening's entertainment will begin, and a miser indeed must he be, or beyond measure resourceless, who refuses halfpence for such choice festivities.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

Herron never admitted it to himself, but in fact it was he who put it into Fanshaw's resourceless mind to compass the revenge of publicity in another way.

From The Cost by David Graham Phillips