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| 1. | [ adjective ] deserving or inciting pity | |
| Synonyms: | piteous hapless miserable pathetic wretched pitiful pitiable misfortunate | |
| Examples: | "a hapless victim" "miserable victims of war" "piteous appeals for help" "pitiable homeless children" "a pitiful fate" "couldn't rescue the poor fellow" "his poor distorted limbs" "a wretched life" |
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| Related terms: | unfortunate | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] moderate to inferior in quality | |
| Synonyms: | second-rate mediocre | |
| Examples: | "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average" "he would make a poor spy" |
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| Related terms: | inferior | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] having little money or few possessions | |
| Examples: | "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries" "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret" |
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| Related terms: | rich broke hard_up moneyless unprovided_for destitute underprivileged financial_condition | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] low in degree | |
| Examples: | "expectations were poor" |
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| Related terms: | low | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] characterized by or indicating lack of money | |
| Examples: | "the country had a poor economy" |
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| Related terms: | rich slummy beggarly | |
| 6. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8797 | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] not sufficient to meet a need | |
| Synonyms: | short inadequate | |
| Examples: | "an inadequate income" "a poor salary" "money is short" "on short rations" "food is in short supply" "short on experience" |
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| Related terms: | insufficient | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances | |
| Examples: | "a poor land" "the area was poor in timber and coal" "food poor in nutritive value" |
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| Related terms: | rich resourceless | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] unsatisfactory | |
| Examples: | "a poor light for reading" "poor morale" |
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| Related terms: | bad | |
| 10. | [ adjective ] yielding little by great labor | |
| Synonyms: | hardscrabble | |
| Examples: | "a hardscrabble farm" "poor soil" |
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| Related terms: | unfruitful | |
| Similar spelling: |
Poore pour pore Poyer power |
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