POOR • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Poor

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/pur/ Listen

Poor

adjective

(compar. poorer; superl. poorest)

1.

Deserving or inciting pity. Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched. "Miserable victims of war" , "The shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic" , "Piteous appeals for help" , "Pitiable homeless children" , "A pitiful fate" , "Oh, you poor thing" , "His poor distorted limbs" , "A wretched life"

2.

Having little money or few possessions. "The proverbial poor artist living in a garret"

3.

Characterized by or indicating poverty. "They lived in the poor section of town"

4.

Lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances. "The area was poor in timber and coal" , "Food poor in nutritive value"

5.

Not sufficient to meet a need. Synonyms: inadequate, short. "A poor salary" , "Money is short" , "On short rations" , "Food is in short supply" , "Short on experience"

6.

Unsatisfactory. "Poor morale" , "Expectations were poor"

noun

1.

People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group). Synonym: poor people.

See more definitions of Poor...

See images of 'Poor'

Antonyms of 'Poor'

Etymology of 'Poor'

Related searches:

poor man's orchid

poor man's pulse

poor man's weatherglass

poor white trash

Standard and Poor's

Standard and Poor's Index

WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University

Share |

"Poor" Quotes from Famous Books

... about that too. I don't see why, whenever a poor criminal escapes, he always comes into our mountains. I don't like to 'pack a gun'—unless I'm hunting. But Brian Oakley didn't scold me for that, though—he knows I always do as he says. He scolded because I hadn't told you about my going to ...

— The Eyes of the World • Harold Bell Wright

... your only reason," grandpa replied. "It's right to want learning, quite right; but, if my child is biased by the fine things at Aikenside, and hates to come back to her poor home, because 'tis poor, I should say it was very natural, but ...

— Aikenside • Mary J. Holmes

... however, with no great ease from Aggie's pearls to her other charms; fixing the former indeed so markedly that Harold had a quick word about it for Lady Fanny. "When poor mummy thinks, you know, that Nanda might have ...

— The Awkward Age • Henry James

... round the door and along the walls of the room surged forward. Good alluvial and a poor man's field? And four men going there? The questions were in every mind and the answer as well. For years the gully-rakers round Boulder Creek had been living and longing to hear such things, and the hungry eyes grew more hungry and the faces more alert. ...

— Colonial Born - A tale of the Queensland bush • G. Firth Scott

... not sure, that I finished this portrait (or another afterwards) on the same day that the news of the battle of Austerlitz came; I walked out in the afternoon, and, as I returned, saw the evening star set over a poor man's cottage with other thoughts and feelings than I shall ever have again. Oh for the revolution of the great Platonic year, that those times might come over again! I could sleep out the three hundred and sixty-five thousand intervening years ...

— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt

Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com