Poor

/pʊɚ/ · adjective

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
2. Of low quality.
3. (attributive only) Worthy of pity.
4. Deficient in a specified way.
5. Inadequate, insufficient.
6. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
7. (with the) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.
8. (card games) the second-to-last placer in Tycoon

Example Sentences

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

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

When Owenism and Chartism had burned themselves out, England had become poorer by that substance out of which the Anglo-Saxon ideal of a free society could have been built up for centuries to come.

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

Durable goods can be cost-effective but make great disease vectors, and disposables like syringes and needles can be a problem in the poorest places, where there's desperate need of vaccines for diseases like polio. That's where the UCSD scientists come in.

Because it’s considered relatively inexpensive, there’s an assumption that poor people eat more fast food than other socioeconomic groups – which has convinced some local governments to try to limit their access. […] The data showed becoming richer or poorer didn’t have much effect at all on how often people ate fast food.

That was a poor performance.

He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

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• poorer
• poorest
• poors
• pooring
• poored

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