poor

Meaning

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.

indigent

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

dislike

sorely distressed

without pelf

without wealth

befitting a poor man

wanting one’s daily bread

base Latin

wreched

become poor

below mark

kike

mangey

coarse food

not enough

not rich

beastly

bastardly

ropey

the last

very bad

very poor person

very small

lean diet

abstemious meal

very narrow

low quality

bad situation

ill-prepared

imporerished

subjugable

bastard

ill-off

impoverished person

austere fare

in straitened circumstances

hard pressed

without quality

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɔː/

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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