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Synonyms for poor
pʊərpoor
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Wiktionary
pooradjective
With little or no possessions or money.
The poor are always with us.
Synonyms:
impoverished, wealthless, pitiable, armEtymology 2, inferiorAntonyms:
richpooradjective
Of low quality.
That was a poor performance.
Synonyms:
impoverished, wealthless, armEtymology 2, pitiable, inferiorAntonyms:
goodpooradjective
To be pitied.
Oh you poor little thing.
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inferior, armEtymology 2, pitiable, impoverished, wealthlesspooradjective
Deficient in a specified way.
Cow's milk is poor in iron.
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inferior, wealthless, pitiable, armEtymology 2, impoverishedAntonyms:
richpooradjective
inadequate, insufficient
I received a poor reward for all my hard work.
Synonyms:
wealthless, pitiable, inferior, impoverished, armEtymology 2Antonyms:
adequate
English Synonyms and Antonyms
poor
Synonyms:
disqualified, inadequate, incompetent, inferior, insufficient, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsuitable, useless, worthlessAntonyms:
able, adapted, adequate, capable, commensurate, competent, equal, fit, fitted, fitting, qualified, satisfactory, sufficient, suitable
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
poor
Synonyms:
indigent, moneyless, impecunious, penniless, weak, meagre, insufficient, deficient, faulty, unsatisfactory, inconsiderable, thin, scanty, baldAntonyms:
rich, wealthy, copious, affluent, abundant, liberal, large, ample, moneyed, sufficient, satisfactory, considerable
Princeton's WordNet
poor people, pooradjective
people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
"the urban poor need assistance"
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poor peopleAntonyms:
rich people, rich, gilded, sufficient, prosperous, sumptuous, princely, well-off, opulent, grand, plush, deluxe, lavish, lush, easy, flush, good, plushy, moneyed, loaded, luxurious, wealthy, comfortable, well-fixed, well-situated, well-heeled, affluent, lucullan, well-to-do, fortunatehapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretchedadjective
deserving or inciting pity
"a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
Synonyms:
ridiculous, paltry, deplorable, scummy, woeful, slimy, execrable, suffering, scurvy, vile, low-down, despicable, inadequate, low, miserable, worthless, sad, piteous, hapless, lamentable, misfortunate, pitiable, distressing, measly, pathetic, short, wretched, silly, sorry, pitiful, abject, unworthy, uglyAntonyms:
rich people, rich, well-off, opulent, well-situated, affluent, princely, moneyed, grand, easy, gilded, deluxe, lush, lucullan, sufficient, sumptuous, loaded, plushy, fortunate, good, prosperous, comfortable, plush, well-heeled, lavish, well-fixed, wealthy, flush, luxurious, well-to-dopooradjective
having little money or few possessions
"deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"
Synonyms:
short, misfortunate, pathetic, inadequate, pitiable, miserable, piteous, pitiful, wretched, haplessAntonyms:
rich, rich people, easy, lush, well-heeled, well-situated, sumptuous, loaded, princely, grand, sufficient, deluxe, lavish, wealthy, moneyed, flush, plushy, luxurious, affluent, fortunate, well-off, plush, lucullan, well-to-do, gilded, well-fixed, good, prosperous, comfortable, opulentpooradjective
characterized by or indicating poverty
"the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"
Synonyms:
short, misfortunate, pathetic, inadequate, pitiable, miserable, piteous, pitiful, wretched, haplessAntonyms:
rich people, rich, flush, well-situated, easy, princely, plush, luxurious, well-fixed, well-off, fortunate, loaded, well-heeled, sumptuous, wealthy, moneyed, lucullan, grand, well-to-do, affluent, gilded, plushy, lavish, sufficient, deluxe, comfortable, lush, prosperous, opulent, goodpooradjective
lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
"a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"
Synonyms:
short, misfortunate, pathetic, inadequate, pitiable, miserable, piteous, pitiful, wretched, haplessAntonyms:
rich people, rich, grand, moneyed, sufficient, plushy, plush, flush, loaded, good, lavish, easy, well-fixed, princely, well-heeled, opulent, deluxe, gilded, well-off, fortunate, sumptuous, affluent, luxurious, well-situated, lucullan, well-to-do, lush, prosperous, wealthy, comfortableinadequate, poor, shortadjective
not sufficient to meet a need
"an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
Synonyms:
pitiable, pathetic, brusque, brusk, misfortunate, pitiful, hapless, short(p), miserable, curt, light, unequal, unretentive, wretched, myopic, short, scant(p), inadequate, piteous, unforesightful, little, shortsighted, forgetfulAntonyms:
rich people, rich, lavish, grand, luxurious, loaded, sumptuous, fortunate, well-fixed, well-off, well-heeled, plush, opulent, flush, deluxe, plushy, sufficient, good, comfortable, lush, prosperous, lucullan, moneyed, well-situated, gilded, well-to-do, affluent, princely, easy, wealthypooradjective
unsatisfactory
"a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"
Synonyms:
short, misfortunate, pathetic, inadequate, pitiable, miserable, piteous, pitiful, wretched, haplessAntonyms:
rich, rich people, well-situated, fortunate, prosperous, affluent, princely, lush, opulent, lavish, well-fixed, wealthy, gilded, sumptuous, flush, sufficient, deluxe, loaded, well-heeled, good, plushy, plush, grand, well-to-do, luxurious, easy, well-off, moneyed, comfortable, lucullan
Editors Contribution
low-income
Dictionary of English Synonymes
pooradjective
Synonyms:
indigent, needy, destitute, necessitous, pinched, distressed, penniless, moneyless, IMPECUNIOUS, seedy, reduced, short of money, out of money, without a penny, out of pocket, out of cash, out at the elbows, out at the heels, in need, in want, hard up, in distress, living from hand to mouth, not worth a farthing, not worth a sou, not richpooradjective
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emaciated, lean, thin, meagre, lank, gaunt, skinny, shrunk, fallen awaypooradjective
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barren, sterile, unfruitful, unfertile, unproductive, fruitless, unprolificpooradjective
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trifling, trivial, slight, small, slender, flimsy, insufficient, inadequate, worthless, unimportant, of little use or worthpooradjective
Synonyms:
contemptible, despicable, paltry, mean, sorry, beggarly, pitiful, shabby, bad, lowpooradjective
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feeble, languid, weak, bald, tame, jejune, vapid, cold, frigid, dull, prosing, prosy, prosaic, spiritlesspooradjective
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miserable, wretched, unfortunate, luckless, ill-fated, ill-starred, unlucky, unhappypoornoun
Synonyms:
[With The prefixed.] paupers, indigent people
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
pooradjective
Synonyms:
indigent, impecunious, needy, poverty -stricken, straitened, necessitous, penniless, eleemosynary, emaciated, skinny, lean, spare, meager, bony, gaunt, thin, haggard, scrawny, angular, peaked, rawboned, pinched, inferior, mean, shabby, seedy, tacky, worthless, barren, sterile, effete infecund, inarable, exhausted, infertile, miserable, wretched, faulty, defective, despicable, contemptible, abject, sordid, sorry, unfavorable, inauspicious, unpropitious
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "poor":
bad, impoverished, armen, weak, poverty, faulty, low, pauvres, mediocre, poorer, gun, weapon, deficient, wrong, poverty-stricken, defective, mra, inadequate, have-nots, arm, mala, disadvantaged, poorest, destitute, needy, indigent, precarious, insufficient, unsatisfactory, ill, inclement, meagre, pauper, resource-poor, mras, -poor, pro-poor, improper, flawed, little
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How to use poor in a sentence?
Capitalism is a lot more important than democracy, i'm not even a big believer in democracy. I always say that democracy can be two wolves and a sheep deciding on what to have for dinner. Look, I'm in favor of people having the right to vote and things like that. But there are a lot of countries that have the right to vote that are still poor. Democracy doesn't always lead to a good economy or even a good political system.
This appears to be remarkably poor judgement from Tesco, fox hunting is an illegal, archaic pastime that's abhorred by the majority of the population.
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe:
I still find it unimaginable that poor innocent victims lives can be taken doing their job, standing talking about economic development and bringing folks to Smith Mountain Lake when this tragedy occurred, it just breaks your heart and you think of the families and so many friends and coworkers who were impacted by what happened today.
Poor farmers don't have the money, time or labor to prevent degradation or improve their soils, if they don't have land tenure, there is no incentive to invest in improving their farms.
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
Translations for poor
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- فقير, مسكينArabic
- fağır, kasıb, yoxsulAzerbaijani
- бедныBelarusian
- лош, беденBulgarian
- paour, peorienBreton
- pobre, pobresCatalan, Valencian
- nebohý, chudý, nevalnýCzech
- truenusWelsh
- stakkels, fattigDanish
- arm, armselig, ArmenGerman
- φτωχόςGreek
- kompatinda, bedaŭrindaEsperanto
- pobreSpanish
- فقیرPersian
- rassu, raukka, rukka, kehno, köyhä, heikkolaatuinen, varaton, poloinen, köyhätFinnish
- pauvre, piètre, pitoyable, pauvresFrench
- earmWestern Frisian
- bochtIrish
- bochd, truaghScottish Gaelic
- pobreGalician
- דלת העם, מסכן, עניHebrew
- दीन, ग़रीब, गरीबHindi
- szegényes, szegény, szegényekHungarian
- աղքատ, ողորմելի, չքավոր, խեղճ, ստից, վատ, աղքատներըArmenian
- povreInterlingua
- malang, burukIndonesian
- povra, nebonaIdo
- misero, poveroItalian
- עניHebrew
- 貧乏, 粗末, 哀れ, かわいそう, 貧しい, 貧しいですJapanese
- საწყალი, ღარიბიGeorgian
- 가난한Korean
- ههژار, خهراپ, فهقیر, گوناح, دهست کورت, بێ قیمهتKurdish
- pauperLatin
- aarm, aarmséilegLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- nabagsLatvian
- сиромашен, лошMacedonian
- दीन, ग़रीबMarathi
- terukMalay
- beklagenswaardig, berooid, arm, armeDutch
- blakk, elendig, fattig, stakkars, dårlig, de fattigeNorwegian
- paureOccitan
- ubogi, biedny, nędzny, biedacy, nędznicyPolish
- pobre, necessitado, humilde, fraco, pobresPortuguese
- pauper, poverRomansh
- amărât, slab, biet, prost, săracRomanian
- бедный, плохой, слабый, жалкий, несчастный, убогий, нищийRussian
- दीनSanskrit
- pobaru, poberu, poaru, povruSardinian
- ubog, убог, bedan, бедан, биједан, siromašan, сиромашан, bijedanSerbo-Croatian
- biedny, chudobnýSlovak
- slàb, reven, ubogSlovene
- varfërAlbanian
- usel, stackars, undermålig, eländig, fattig, miserabel, dålig, de fattigaSwedish
- maskiniSwahili
- పేద, నాసి రకం, పాపం, నాసి, బీదTelugu
- น่าสงสารThai
- perişan, züğürt, kötü, yoksul, düşkün, zavallı, zayıf, fakirTurkish
- біднийUkrainian
- دین, غریبUrdu
- nghèoVietnamese
- 较差的Chinese
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