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LIGHT PURSE

Definition: LIGHT PURSE

LIGHT PURSE

1. Poverty or want of resources.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Synonyms within Context: LIGHT PURSE

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Modern Translation: LIGHT PURSE

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.

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Anagrams: LIGHT PURSE

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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