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Definition of 'poor' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) poor
having little or no money, goods, or other means of support.

2.  poor
Law. dependent upon charity or public support.

3.  poor
(of a country, institution, etc.) meagerly supplied or endowed with resources or funds.

4.  poor
characterized by or showing poverty.

5.  poor
lacking in something specified:
a region poor in mineral deposits.

6.  poor
faulty or inferior:
poor workmanship.

7.  poor
deficient in desirable ingredients or qualities:
poor soil.

8.  poor
lacking in ability or training:
a poor cook.

9.  poor
wretched; unfortunate:
The poor thing has no friends.

10.  poor
scanty or meager:
poor attendance.

11.  poor
humble; modest.


Definition of 'poor' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) poor people, poor
people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
"the urban poor need assistance"

2. (adj) hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
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 distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

3. (adj) poor
having little money or few possessions
"deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"

4. (adj) poor
characterized by or indicating poverty
"the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"

5. (adj) poor
lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
"a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"

6. (adj) inadequate, poor, short
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"

7. (adj) poor
unsatisfactory
"a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"


Definition of 'poor' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) poor
rich
a poor family; a poor man with little education

2.  poor
the poor
≠ the rich
charity donations for the poor

3.  poor
good
hospitals serving poor food to patients; a poor grade on the test

4.  poor
≠ good, strong
students who are poor readers

5.  poor
rich
a diet that is poor in vitamins and minerals

6.  poor
used to show sympathy for sb
Poor Paula, she looked really upset.


Definition of 'poor' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) poor
a small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod

2.  poor
destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent

3.  poor
so completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public

4.  poor
destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected

5.  poor
wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc

6.  poor
wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits

7.  poor
of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings

8.  poor
destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil

9.  poor
destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture

10.  poor
without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night

11.  poor
inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse

12.  poor
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

13.  poor
free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek


Definition of 'poor' Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms 

1.  poor
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Translation of 'poor' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: having little money or property
She is too poor to buy clothes for the children; the poor nations of the world.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: arm Arabic flag Arabic: فَقير Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: беден
Brazilian flag Brazilian: pobre Czech flag Czech: chudý German flag German: arm
Danish flag Danish: fattig Greek flag Greek: φτωχός Spanish flag Spanish: pobre
Estonian flag Estonian: vaene Farsi flag Farsi: فقیر Finnish flag Finnish: köyhä
French flag French: pauvre Hebrew flag Hebrew: עָנִי Hindi flag Hindi: घृणित, तुच्छ
Croatian flag Croatian: siromašan Hungarian flag Hungarian: szegény Indonesian flag Indonesian: miskin
Icelandic flag Icelandic: fátækur Italian flag Italian: povero Japanese flag Japanese: 貧しい
Korean flag Korean: 가난한 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: neturtingas, vargingas Latvian flag Latvian: nabadzīgs; trūcīgs
Malay flag Malay: miskin Dutch flag Dutch: arm Norwegian flag Norwegian: fattig
Polish flag Polish: biedny Persian flag Persian: فقیر Pashto flag Pashto: غريب
Portuguese flag Portuguese: pobre Romanian flag Romanian: sărac Russian flag Russian: бедный
Slovak flag Slovak: chudobný Slovenian flag Slovenian: reven Serbian flag Serbian: siromašan
Swedish flag Swedish: fattig Thai flag Thai: ยากจน Turkish flag Turkish: yoksul, fakir
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 窮的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: бідний, незаможний Urdu flag Urdu: غريب، نادار
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: nghèo Chinese flag Chinese: 穷的

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