Poor

Quick meaning: Poor is an adjective meaning With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

Meaning

With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

More Meanings

1. Of low quality.
2. (attributive only) Worthy of pity.
3. Deficient in a specified way.
4. Inadequate, insufficient.
5. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
6. (with the) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.
7. (card games) the second-to-last placer in Tycoon

Example Sentences

That was a poor performance.

We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.

The poorest of the poor are truly destitute, with so few assets they are basically shackless.

England is growne to ſuch a paſſe of late, That rich men triumph to ſee the poore beg at their gate.

Word Forms

• poorer
• poorest
• poors
• pooring
• poored

Synonyms for poor

Depending on context, synonyms include broke, impecunious, almsless, arm, bankrupt, beggared.

Antonyms for poor

Common opposites include rich, wealthy, good, adequate, decent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include indigent, impoverished, skint, destitute, deficient, moneyless.

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