resourceless
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a word derived from
resource.
resourcenouna source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.
Example Sentences
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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
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Sometimes Mary's heart would ache for the little, resourceless lady, drifting aimlessly through her same and stupid days.
From Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Norris, Kathleen Thompson
Want of money how supplied.They are embarrassed, indeed, in the highest degree, but not wholly resourceless.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund