poor
adjective
[ pɔː ]
• lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society.
• "they were too poor to afford a telephone"
Similar:
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,
bankrupt,
bust,
insolvent,
in debt,
in the red,
on the breadline,
broke,
flat broke,
cleaned out,
strapped for cash,
strapped,
on one's uppers,
stony broke,
skint,
in Queer Street,
stone broke,
craptastic,
pauperized,
beggared,
• of a low or inferior standard or quality.
• "many people are eating a very poor diet"
Similar:
substandard,
below standard,
below par,
bad,
deficient,
defective,
faulty,
imperfect,
inferior,
mediocre,
abject,
appalling,
abysmal,
atrocious,
awful,
terrible,
dismal,
dreadful,
unsatisfactory,
low-grade,
second-rate,
third-rate,
jerry-built,
shoddy,
crude,
tinny,
trashy,
miserable,
wretched,
disappointing,
lamentable,
deplorable,
pitiful,
inadequate,
insufficient,
unacceptable,
execrable,
frightful,
crummy,
dire,
bum,
diabolical,
rotten,
sad,
tatty,
tenth-rate,
ropy,
duff,
rubbish,
rubbishy,
pants,
a load of pants,
grotty,
farkakte,
weak sauce,
craptacular,
direful,
egregious,
crap,
crappy,
• (of a person) deserving of pity or sympathy.
• "they enquired after poor Dorothy's broken hip"
Similar:
unfortunate,
unlucky,
luckless,
unhappy,
hapless,
ill-fated,
ill-starred,
pitiable,
pitiful,
wretched,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French poure, from Latin pauper .
