poor
Betekenis (Engels)
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- With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- Of low quality.
- Worthy of pity.
- Deficient in a specified way.
- Inadequate, insufficient.
- Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
Sinonieme
poor person
poor people
destitude
poor man
without money
extremely poor
bad-off
not well off
of low quality
piteable
not wealthy
of modest means
sorely distressed
without pelf
without wealth
befitting a poor man
wanting one’s daily bread
base Latin
wreched
become poor
below mark
coarse food
not enough
not rich
the last
very bad
very poor person
very small
lean diet
abstemious meal
very narrow
low quality
bad situation
imporerished
ill-off
impoverished person
austere fare
in straitened circumstances
hard pressed
without quality
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/pɔː/
Etimologie (Engels)
Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper. Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).
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