poor

(Anglais)

Adj

1. With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
2. Of low quality.
3. (attributive) 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. (countable) A poor person.
2. (obsolete) Synonym of poor cod.

Verb

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

Opposé de

rich, wealthy, good, adequate, decent

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pɔː/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: povre

Appartenant à ancien anglais: unlǣde

Appartenant à moyen anglais: unweli

In summary

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”)).

Concepts

pauvre

mauvais

👎

misérable

indigent

insuffisant

maigre

malheureux

☹️

pitoyable

pauvreté

faible

méchant

dégueulasse

très pauvre

rare

médiocre

piètre

maladroit

minable

misère

modeste

nécessiteux

obscur

orphelin

piteux

qui inspire pitié

restreint

de piètre qualité

déplorable

être pauvre

navrant

pas doué

pauvre petit

pauvres

pauvret

être mauvais en

de pauvre

devenir pauvre

pauvre petite

juifaillon

juivaillon

pauvre de

affligeant

pauvre homme femme

à plaindre

avare

court

fatigué

faux

grave

impuissant

Synonymes

indigent

miserable

bad

👎

destitute

needy

impoverished

wretched

pitiful

weak

scanty

inferior

pitiable

nasty

unfortunate

meager

pauper

inadequate

thin

scarce

mean

meagre

penniless

poverty-stricken

poor person

dismal

poor people

beggarly

poverty

unenviable

humble

helpless

shoddy

lean

pathetic

wrong

shabby

deficient

low

orphan

sparse

hard up

evil

wretch

few

🤏

small

unhappy

☹️

little

penurious

in short supply

insufficient

Traductions

pobre

arm

povero

arm

φτωχός

pobre

pobre

biedny

beklagenswaardig

schlecht

👎

misero

slecht

👎

dürftig

cattivo

👎

فقير

Phrases

Rich here , poor hereafter .

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.