poor

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
2. Of low quality.
3. Worthy of pity.
4. Deficient in a specified way.
5. Inadequate, insufficient.
6. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

Noun

The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

Noun

1. A poor person.
2. (obsolete) Synonym of poor cod.

Verb

1. Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.
2. (obsolete) To become poor.
3. (obsolete) To call poor.

Concepts

pauvre

mauvais

misérable

indigent

pitoyable

maigre

insuffisant

malheureux

faible

pauvreté

méchant

dégueulasse

rare

médiocre

piètre

très pauvre

les pauvres

minable

affligeant

infortuné

lamentable

piteux

qui inspire pitié

à plaindre

de piètre qualité

grave

maladroit

pas doué

être mauvais en

misère

limité

modeste

restreint

isolé

obscur

navrant

déplorable

avare

orphelin

mal

devenir pauvre

nécessiteux

impuissant

le

fatigué

pauvre petit

pauvre petite

juifaillon

juivaillon

de pauvre

court

inadéquat

pauvres

faux

être pauvre

pauvre de

pauvret

pauvre homme femme

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pɔː/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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”)).

Phrases

In another , the female subject could speak Bengali with a poor pronunciation .

Dans un autre, le sujet féminin pourrait parler bengali avec une mauvaise prononciation.