poor

Meaning

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.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɔː/

Etymology

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”)).

Sentences

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