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. (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.

Opposite of

rich, wealthy, good, adequate, decent

Synonyms

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

Translations

pauvre

pobre

arm

povero

φτωχός

arm

pobre

pobre

misero

beklagenswaardig

schlecht

👎

mauvais

👎

misérable

cattivo

👎

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɔː/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: povre

Cognate with Old English: unlǣde

Cognate with Middle English: 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”)).

Sentences

Rich here , poor hereafter .

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