1. Deserving or inciting pity
   "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"
   - hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched 
2. Having little money or few possessions
   "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret" 
3. Characterized by or indicating poverty
   "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town" 
4. Lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
   "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value" 
5. Not sufficient to meet a need
   "a poor salary"
   - inadequate, short 
6. Unsatisfactory
   "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"

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

Sounds like: paw, pore, pour

Derived forms: poors, poorest, poorer

See also: bad, badly-off, beggarly, broke, bust, cash-strapped, deficient, destitute, financial condition, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in straitened circumstances, indigent, insufficient, mean, moneyless, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, pinched, poorly, poorness, poverty-stricken, resourceless, skint [Brit], slummy, stone-broke [N. Amer], stony-broke [Brit], strapped, strapped for cash, underprivileged, unfortunate, unprovided for

Type of: people

Antonym: rich

Encyclopedia: Poor Poor, Little Sisters of the

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