POOR

poor

1. [Adjective]: having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"

2. [Adjective]: characterized by or indicating lack of money; "the country had a poor economy"

3. [Adjective]: badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"

4. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"; "he would make a poor spy"

5. yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil"

6. low in degree; "expectations were poor"

7. not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"

8. deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor d

9. unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"

Similar words to 'poor'

Opposite words to 'poor'

1. rich

2. rich

3. rich


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