poor

Plural: poors

Noun

• people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
  • "the urban poor need assistance"
• The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.
• A poor person.
• Synonym of poor cod.

Adjective Satellite

• deserving or inciting pity; ; ; - Galsworthy
  • "Oh, you poor thing"
  • "his poor distorted limbs"
• not sufficient to meet a need
  • "a poor salary"
• unsatisfactory
  • "a poor light for reading"
  • "poor morale"
  • "expectations were poor"

Adjective

• Lacking sufficient money or means of support; impoverished.
• having little money or few possessions
  • "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"
  • "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"
• characterized by or indicating poverty
  • "the country had a poor economy"
  • "they lived in the poor section of town"
• lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
  • "a poor land"
  • "the area was poor in timber and coal"
  • "food poor in nutritive value"

Adj

• With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
• Of low quality.
• Worthy of pity.
• Deficient in a specified way.
• Inadequate, insufficient.
• Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

Verb

• Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.
• To become poor.
• To call poor.

Examples

• Cow's milk is poor in iron.
• His scrabble rack looked poor, devoid of any high-value letters or vowels.
• I received a poor reward for all my hard work.
• Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!
• That was a poor performance.
• The poor are always with us.
• The poors are at it again.
• The rich are often so insulated from reality that they think the poor have extra money they could save for more than a short time.
• The sun shines on the rich and the poor alike but, come the rain, the rich have better umbrellas.
• This poor little puppy got a nasty snake bite.
• We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.

Synonyms

hapless, inadequate, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor people, short, wretched, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, feeling the pinch, flat, hard up, impecunious, impoverish, impoverished, in need, indigent, inferior, insolvent, lower-class, necessitous, needy, oofless, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as Job, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, poor cod, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, shillingless, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, threadbare, to make poor, unwealthy, wealthless

Antonyms

rich, rich people, adequate, decent, good, wealthy

Related Words

few, paucal, pauci-, paucity, pauper

Anagrams of poor