poor

  • (s) 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 distorted limbs
    • a wretched life
    hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, miserable, pitiable, pitiful, wretched,
  • (a) having little money or few possessions
    • deplored the gap between rich and poor countries
    • the proverbial poor artist living in a garret
  • (a) characterized by or indicating poverty
    • the country had a poor economy
    • they lived in the poor section of town
  • (a) lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
    • a poor land
    • the area was poor in timber and coal
    • food poor in nutritive value
  • (s) 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
    inadequate, short,
  • (s) unsatisfactory
    • a poor light for reading
    • poor morale
    • expectations were poor

Nouns

  • (n) people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
    • the urban poor need assistance
    poor people,

Synonyms

poor people hapless misfortunate pathetic piteous miserable pitiable pitiful wretched inadequate short

Antonyms

rich rich people

See also

underprivileged

Words of close approximity

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