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Poor
pɔː
Poor definitions
adjective
poor
poorer
poorest
- lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society
"they were too poor to afford a telephone"
poverty-stricken impoverished necessitous beggarly in penury penurious impecunious indigent needy needful in need/want badly off low-paid in reduced circumstances in straitened circumstances destitute hard up short of money on one's beam-ends unable to make ends meet underprivileged deprived penniless without a sou as poor as a church mouse moneyless- (of a place) inhabited by people with little money
"the world's poorest countries"
- of a low or inferior standard or quality
"many people are eating a very poor diet"
- deficient or lacking in
"the water is poor in nutrients"
- used ironically to deprecate something belonging to or offered by oneself
"he is, in my poor opinion, a more handsome young man"
- (of a person) deserving of pity or sympathy
"they enquired after poor Dorothy's broken hip"