Poor

Adjective

 * 1) With little or no possessions or money.
 * We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.
 * 1) Of low quality.
 * That was a poor performance.
 * 1) To be pitied.
 * Oh you poor little thing.
 * 1) Deficient in a specified way.
 * Cow's milk is poor in iron.
 * 1) inadequate, insufficient
 * I received a poor reward for all my hard work.

Synonyms

 * impoverished, wealthless, arm
 * inferior
 * pitiable, arm
 * See also Thesaurus:impoverished
 * See also Thesaurus:unhappy

Antonyms

 * rich
 * good
 * rich
 * adequate

Related terms

 * a poor man's ...
 * dirt poor
 * piss-poor
 * poor as a church mouse
 * poor box
 * poor relation

Noun

 * 1)  Those people as a group who have little or no possessions or money.
 * The poor are always with us.

Adjectives for Poor
fancy; solitary; wily; nameless; neighboring; grateful; undeserving; unattended; shamefaced; neglected; sickly.

Adverbs for Poor
miserably; wretchedly; deplorably; lamentably; pitiably; pitifully; helplessly; hopelessly; strangely; amazingly; remarkably; terribly; incredibly; unfortunately; unhappily; uncommonly; unusually; embarrassingly; uncomfortably; horribly; desperately; awfully.

Thesaurus
DP, Lenten, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, against, amateurish, arrant, artless, ascetic, atrocious, attenuated, austere, awful, bad, badly off, bankrupt, bare-handed, barren, base, beggared, beggarly, below par, beneath contempt, broke, bumbling, cadaverous, cheap, cheeseparing, cheesy, chinchy, chintzy, chronic poor, chronic poverty area, coarse, common, con, contemptible, corpselike, crumbling, crummy, debased, decrepit, defective, deficient, degraded, depleted, depraved, depressed class, depressed population, despicable, destitute, destitution, dirty, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontented, disenchanted, disgruntled, disgusting, disillusioned, disintegrating, displeased, dissatisfied, dissenting, distressed, down to bedrock, down-and-out, dwarfed, dwarfish, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, embarrassed, empty-handed, execrable, exhausted, exiguous, famished, faulty, feeble, feeling the pinch, flagrant, flat, flat broke, flawed, flimsy, fortuneless, foul, fourth-class, frugal, fruitless, fulsome, gaudy, ghetto-dwellers, gimcracky, grave, gross, haggard, half-assed, half-starved, hapless, hard up, heinous, hollow-eyed, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, ill, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-fated, ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-starred, impecunious, impecuniousness, impoverished, impoverishment, in Queer Street, in narrow circumstances, in need, in rags, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, in want, inadept, inadequate, inapt, inattentive, inconclusive, inconsequential, indigence, indigent, indignant, inefficient, inept, inexpert, inferior, infertile, infirm, infrequent, inglorious, innocuous, insignificant, insolvent, insubstantial, insufficient, irregular, jejune, land-poor, lean, least, limited, little, lousy, low, low-class, low-down, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, lowest, lowliest, lowly, luckless, lumpen, mangy, marantic, marasmic, meager, mean, measly, mediocre, meretricious, miserable, miserly, modest, moneyless, monstrous, narrow, necessitous, neediness, needy, nefarious, niggardly, obnoxious, odious, on short commons, on the edge, opposed, opposing, out of pocket, outcasts, paltry, parsimonious, pathetic, pauperism, pauperized, peaked, peaky, pedestrian, penniless, penurious, penury, petty, piddling, pinched, pitiable, pitiful, plain, poky, poorish, poorly off, poorness, poverty subculture, poverty-stricken, privation, punk, puny, rank, rare, reduced, reptilian, rotten, rotten at, rubbishy, ruined, sad, scabby, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-best, second-class, second-rate, seedy, seldom met with, seldom seen, shabby, shoddy, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, shorthanded, shriveled, simple, skeletal, skill-less, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, slipshod, slum-dwellers, small, sorry, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, squalid, squeezed, star-crossed, starvation, starved, starveling, starving, sterile, stingy, stinted, stone-broke, stony, straitened, strapped, stunted, subsistence, substandard, tabetic, tabid, tacky, teachable, the disadvantaged, the dispossessed, the distressed, the down-and-out, the forgotten man, the have-nots, the needy, the other America, the poor, the powerless, the underprivileged, the urban poor, thin, third-class, third-rate, thoughtless, tight, tinny, trashy, trifling, trivial, trumpery, turned-off, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unacceptable, unappreciative, unapproving, unapt, uncomplimentary, undeft, under par, underdeveloped nation, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, underprivileged, undexterous, undextrous, undistinguished, unfacile, unfavorable, unfed, unfirm, unfortunate, unfruitful, unhappy, unimportant, unintelligent, unlucky, unmentionable, unmoneyed, unnourishing, unnutritious, unpretentious, unproductive, unprofessional, unproficient, unprosperous, unproved, unprovided, unreplenished, unrigorous, unsatisfactory, unskillful, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsturdy, unsubstantial, unsupplied, unsustained, valueless, vile, want, wasted, watered, watery, weak, weazeny, welfare rolls, wiped out, withered, wizened, worthless, wraithlike, wretched

Etymology
From povre:, povere: <   (and ) povre:, poure: (Modern  pauvre:), from  pauper: from  *undefined: from. Cognate with feawa:. Displaced native earm:, arm: (from  earm:; See arm),  wanstum: (from  vant:,  unlede: (from  unlæde:,  unweli: (from  un-: + welig:.

Adjective

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azeri: kasıb, yoxsul, fağır
 * Belarusian: бедны
 * Catalan: pobre
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 貧窮, 贫穷, 貧乏, 贫乏, ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: φτωχός (ftokhós)
 * Hebrew: עני (ani), עניה (aniah) , דלת העם
 * Hindi: ग़रीब, दीन
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: povre
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 貧しい, 貧乏


 * Korean: 가난한
 * Kurdish:, ,
 * Latin: pauper m, f, n
 * Luxembourgish: aarm
 * Marathi: ग़रीब (ġarīb), दीन (dīn)
 * Norwegian: fattig, blakk
 * Old English:
 * Persian: فقیر
 * Polish: biedny, biedna , biedne , ubogi
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: अदानः (adānaha)
 * Scottish Gaelic: truagh, bochd
 * Serbian:, ,
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: బీద (beeda), పేద (paeda)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: бідний
 * Urdu: غریب, دین
 * Vietnamese: nghèo
 * West Frisian: earm


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: խեղճ, ողորմելի
 * Catalan: pobre
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 可怜
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: φτωχός (ftokhós)
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: malang
 * Interlingua: povre
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 哀れな (あわれな, awarena)
 * Kurdish:
 * Luxembourgish: aarm
 * Norwegian: stakkars
 * Old English:
 * Polish: biedny
 * Portuguese: pobre (precedes the noun)
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:, вызывающий жалость (vyzyvájuščij žálost’)
 * Scottish Gaelic: truagh
 * Spanish: pobre
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: stackars, miserabel
 * Telugu: పాపం (paapaM)
 * Turkish:, düşkün, perişan
 * West Frisian: earm


 * Armenian:, ստից
 * Catalan: pobre
 * Chinese: 贫乏 (pínfá)
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: φτωχός (ftokhós)
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: nebona
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: (そまつな, somatsuna)


 * Kurdish: ,
 * Luxembourgish: aarmséileg
 * Norwegian: dårlig, elendig
 * Old English:
 * Polish: nędzny
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bochd
 * Swedish: dålig, undermålig, eländig, miserabel, usel
 * Telugu: నాసి (naasi), నాసి రకం (naasi rakaM)
 * Turkish: ,


 * : vakaloloma
 * : miskin, papa, tak berada, kekurangan
 * : chudobný

Noun

 * French: pauvres
 * German: Armen
 * Luxembourgish: Aarm


 * Polish: biedacy, nędznicy
 * Portuguese: pobres


 * Armenian: աղքատները
 * Catalan: els pobres
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: οι φτωχοί (ftokhí)
 * Hungarian: szegények


 * Interlingua: le povres
 * Italian: i poveri
 * Norwegian: de fattige
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: de fattiga

Anagrams

 * roop

Noun

 * 1) fear