Poor describes having little of something. If you lack needed food and shelter, you're poor, and if you fall below a standard or don't even try, you're giving a poor performance. Empty pockets and empty efforts both mean poor.
A small European codfish (
Adjective 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 d
Adjective S.
yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil"
Adjective S.
unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"
Adjective S.
low in degree; "expectations were poor"
Adjective
having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"
Adjective
badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"
Adjective
characterized by or indicating lack of money; "the country had a poor economy"
Adjective 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"
Adjective S.
moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"; "he would make a poor spy"
superl.
Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or
goods; needy; indigent.
superl.
So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to
maintenance from the public.
superl.
Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might
naturally be expected
superl.
Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean;
emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
superl.
Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor
health; poor spirits.
superl.
Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby;
mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.
superl.
Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; --
said of land; as, poor soil.
superl.
Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor
discourse; a poor picture.
superl.
Without prosperous conditions or good results;
unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick
man had a poor night.
superl.
Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor
excuse.
superl.
Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a
term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a
word of contempt.
superl.
Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
n.
A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also
power cod.
Poor
A small European codfish (
Usage Examples
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
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Other Usage ExamplesAll men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
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