time-pooradjective [ after verb ]
uk/ˌtaɪmˈpɔːr/us/ˌtaɪmˈpʊr/not having enough time to do things:
Increasingly, both men and women in the professional middle classes are work-rich and time-poor.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- be at a premium idiom
- be thin on the ground idiom
- dearth
- deficiency
- deficient
- gold dust
- lacking
- late
- long on sth and short on sth idiom
- lousy
- meagre
- measly
- nearly
- rare
- scarce
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortfall
- sparse
- thin
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