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Definition: LIGHT PURSE |
LIGHT PURSE1. Poverty or want of resources. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Poverty | Empty pocket, empty purse; light purse; beggarly account of empty boxes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "LIGHT PURSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | бедность (indigence, lean purse, misery, penury, poorness, poverty, slender purse, tenuity). (various references) | |
Turkish | cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: superlight. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-l-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: plighters. | |
-2 letters: gulpiest, lighters, luthiers, philters, philtres, plighter, plushier, relights, slighter, sulphite, superhit, uplights, uprights. | |
-3 letters: glister, gluiest, gristle, grushie, gulpers, gulpier, gushier, gustier, gutsier, hipster, hirples, hirsute, hurlies, hurtles, hustler, lighter, ligures, lustier, luthier, philter, philtre, piglets, plights, plusher, pushier, relight, resight, resplit, ruliest, rutiles, sighter, sleight, slither, splurge, spright, spurtle, stipule. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-l-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: upholstering. | |
+4 letters: reupholstering, sprightfulness. | |
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