adj
Meaning 1
With nothing in one's hands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonyms: unburdened, unencumbered, unladen
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unburdened, unencumbered, unladen
Antonyms: full-handed
Standard Lemma guide
emptyhanded
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adj
Meaning 2
Impoverished; having no money or resources.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, depauperate, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, farthingless, feeling the pinch, flat, goodless, groatless, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, indigent, insolvent, lower-class, moneyless, necessitous, needy, oofless, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, poor as Job, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, shillingless, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, threadbare, unwealthy, wealthless
Antonyms: full-handed
adj
Meaning 3
Having nothing to offer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: full-handed
adj
Meaning 4
Having received or acquired nothing.
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adj
Meaning 5
Having nothing to offer; unable to give what was promised.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 6
Unarmed.
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History
Etymology
From empty + handed.
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: դատարկաձեռն (datarkajeṙn) — having nothing to give
- Chinese Mandarin: 空手 (kōngshǒu) — having nothing to give
- Chinese Mandarin: 白手 (báishǒu) — having nothing to give
- Finnish: tyhjin käsin — having nothing to give
- French: les mains vides — having nothing to give
- German: mit leeren Händen — having nothing to give
- Greek: με άδεια χέρια (me ádeia chéria) — having nothing to give
- Hindi: छूछा हाथ (chūchā hāth) — having nothing to give
- Italian: a mani vuote — having nothing to give
- Italian: inerme — having nothing to give
- Japanese: 手ぶらで (tebura de) — having nothing to give
- Latvian: tukšā — having nothing to give
- Latvian: bešā — having nothing to give
- Māori: te rae anake — having nothing to give
- Norwegian Bokmål: tomhendt — having nothing to give
- Old English: īdelhende — having nothing to give
- Persian: دست خالی (dast-e xâli) — having nothing to give
- Polish: z pustymi rękami — having nothing to give
- Portuguese: de mãos vazias — having nothing to give
- Portuguese: de mãos abanando — having nothing to give
- Russian: с пусты́ми рука́ми (s pustými rukámi) — having nothing to give
- Spanish: con las manos vacías — having nothing to give
- Swedish: tomhänt — having nothing to give
- Vietnamese: tay không — having nothing to give
- Vietnamese: tay trắng — having nothing to give
- Vietnamese: trắng tay — having nothing to give
- Armenian: դատարկաձեռն (datarkajeṙn) — having given or received nothing
- Finnish: tyhjin toimin — having given or received nothing
- French: bredouille — having given or received nothing
- German: mit leeren Händen — having given or received nothing
- Greek: με άδεια χέρια (me ádeia chéria) — having given or received nothing
- Italian: con le pive nel sacco — having given or received nothing
- Latvian: tukšā — having given or received nothing
- Latvian: bešā — having given or received nothing
- Malay: tangan kosong — having given or received nothing
- Norwegian Bokmål: tomhendt — having given or received nothing
- Old English: īdelhende — having given or received nothing
- Persian: دست خالی (dast-e xâli) — having given or received nothing
- Portuguese: de mãos vazias — having given or received nothing
- Portuguese: de mãos abanando — having given or received nothing
- Portuguese: de mãos a abanar — having given or received nothing
- Russian: с пусты́ми рука́ми (s pustými rukámi) — having given or received nothing
- Russian: несо́лоно хлеба́вши (nesólono xlebávši) — having given or received nothing
- Spanish: con las manos vacías — having given or received nothing
- Swedish: tomhänt — having given or received nothing
- Māori: ngere — having nothing to offer
- Māori: tahakore — having nothing to offer
- Norwegian Bokmål: tomhendt — having nothing to offer
- Old English: īdelhende — having nothing to offer
- Polish: odejść z pustymi rękami — having nothing to offer