poor
IPA: pˈur
noun
- (plural only) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.
- (countable, originally chiefly Scotland) A poor person.
- (obsolete) Synonym of poor cod.
- A surname
verb
- (transitive, rare) Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become poor.
- (obsolete) To call poor.
adjective
- With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- Of low quality.
- (attributive only) Worthy of pity.
- Deficient in a specified way.
- Inadequate, insufficient.
- Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
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Examples of "poor" in Sentences
- The aim was to educate the poor.
- It was the poor helping the poor.
- The condition was poor and destitute.
- The sums of money were allotted to the poor.
- Thank you for donating money for the poor in Pueblo.
- The state apartments were found to be outmoded and in poor repair.
- This money was then distributed to the needy poor of the neighborhood.
- He shows pity to the needy and the poor and saves the lives of the poor.
- In a state of total freedom, life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
- The extremists and poor state leadership seem to endlessly repress progress, no matter what it takes.