propertyless

1. 1.

   of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers

   “party of the propertyless proletariat”

   Synonymswage-earningworking-classblue-collar

   Similarlower-class

Questions about propertyless

What does propertyless mean?

propertyless means "of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers".

How many syllables are in propertyless?

propertyless has 4 syllables: pro-per-ty-less. The stress falls on "per".

What is another word for propertyless?

Close synonyms include wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is propertyless a common word?

propertyless is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.