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Adjective(1) deserving or inciting pity(2) having little money or few possessions(3) characterized by or indicating poverty(4) lacking in quality or substances(5) of insufficient quantity to meet a need(6) moderate to inferior in quality(7) characterized by or indicating lack of money(8) low in degree(9) badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances(10) not sufficient to meet a need(11) unsatisfactory(12) yielding little by great labor(13) lacking sufficient money(14) deficient(15) inadequate(16) weak

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(1) Bedfordshire was rated weak by Government inspectors last year and poor at its previous inspection.(2) Tarleton says he lives poor for political reasons: he doesn't pay income tax.(3) And similar reasons are why abortion and childcare haven't penetrated this Far East in a very poor area of the world.(4) Pity poor Kenneth Welsh, with the weaselly demeanor only a mother could love.(5) she retired because of poor eyesight(6) And I couldn't help but pity the poor chap who finds himself grappling with one of these after a night out on the sauce with his hot date.(7) Should Munster lose, pity the poor man who moved the game to the capital purely for financial reasons.(8) Our first impressions were that it seemed a very run-down and poor city with an abundance of homeless people.(9) The reforms would widen the gap between rich and poor , creating a society of haves and have-nots.(10) we were very poor(11) After retirement, he is still serving the society, especially the poor .(12) She lives in housing for poor seniors and cannot afford to repair her own vehicle, which she says broke down four years ago.(13) The instruments trudge along at a snail's pace and the recording quality is poor at best.(14) Whether a place is poor or well-off depends not on the size of the town government building.(15) Pity those poor residents who put up with those conditions on a daily basis!(16) The place was poor beyond the conceptions of a privileged 21 st-century Westerner.
Related Words
(1) poor baby
(2) poor thing
(3) very poor
(4) the poor
(5) poor people
(6) poor man
(7) poor girl
(8) poor boy
(9) poor health
(10) poor performance
Synonyms
Adjective
1. poverty-stricken
2. substandard
3. meager
4. unproductive
5. deficient in
6. unfortunate
7. short
8. pathetic


Noun
9. poor people


📺 Word Example from TV Shows

This is my own poor way
of saying "thank you."

This is my own POOR way of saying "thank you."

Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 9


You poor things, you must be exhausted.

You POOR things, you must be exhausted.

The Big Bang Theory Season 10, Episode 12


Those bastards\Nto the east are as poor as we are.�

Those bastards
to the east are as POOR as we are.

Vikings Season 1, Episode 1


- We have to go.
- Not now, this poor man needs me.

- We have to go. - Not now, this POOR man needs me.

The Big Bang Theory Season 1, Episode 16


I can't work with someone
with poor judgment.

I can't work with someone with POOR judgment.

Breaking Bad Season 2, Episode 11


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