Antonyms for poor
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1. pooradjective

   With little or no possessions or money.

   The poor are always with us.

   Antonyms:
   rich

   Synonyms:
   impoverished, wealthless, pitiable, armEtymology 2, inferior

2. pooradjective

   Of low quality.

   That was a poor performance.

   Antonyms:
   good

   Synonyms:
   impoverished, wealthless, armEtymology 2, pitiable, inferior

3. pooradjective

   To be pitied.

   Oh you poor little thing.

   Synonyms:
   inferior, armEtymology 2, pitiable, impoverished, wealthless

4. pooradjective

   Deficient in a specified way.

   Cow's milk is poor in iron.

   Antonyms:
   rich

   Synonyms:
   inferior, wealthless, pitiable, armEtymology 2, impoverished

5. pooradjective

   inadequate, insufficient

   I received a poor reward for all my hard work.

   Synonyms:
   wealthless, pitiable, inferior, impoverished, armEtymology 2

   Antonyms:
   adequate

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1. poor

   Antonyms:
   able, adapted, adequate, capable, commensurate, competent, equal, fit, fitted, fitting, qualified, satisfactory, sufficient, suitable

   Synonyms:
   disqualified, inadequate, incompetent, inferior, insufficient, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsuitable, useless, worthless

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1. poor

   Antonyms:
   rich, wealthy, copious, affluent, abundant, liberal, large, ample, moneyed, sufficient, satisfactory, considerable

   Synonyms:
   indigent, moneyless, impecunious, penniless, weak, meagre, insufficient, deficient, faulty, unsatisfactory, inconsiderable, thin, scanty, bald

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1. poor people, pooradjective

   people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)

   "the urban poor need assistance"

   Antonyms:
   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, fortunate

   Synonyms:
   poor people

2. hapless, 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"

   Antonyms:
   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-do

   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, ugly

3. pooradjective

   having little money or few possessions

   "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"

   Antonyms:
   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, opulent

   Synonyms:
   short, misfortunate, pathetic, inadequate, pitiable, miserable, piteous, pitiful, wretched, hapless

4. pooradjective

   characterized by or indicating poverty

   "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"

   Antonyms:
   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, good

   Synonyms:
   short, misfortunate, pathetic, inadequate, pitiable, miserable, piteous, pitiful, wretched, hapless

5. pooradjective

   lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances

   "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"

   Antonyms:
   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, comfortable

   Synonyms:
   short, misfortunate, pathetic, inadequate, pitiable, miserable, piteous, pitiful, wretched, hapless

6. inadequate, 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"

   Antonyms:
   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, wealthy

   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, forgetful

7. pooradjective

   unsatisfactory

   "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"

   Antonyms:
   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

   Synonyms:
   short, misfortunate, pathetic, inadequate, pitiable, miserable, piteous, pitiful, wretched, hapless

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1. 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

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1. plentiful

   Submitted by anonymous on April 6, 2021  

How to use poor in a sentence?

1. Andy McKean:

   He sets, in my opinion, a poor example for the nation and particularly for our children by personally insulting -- often in a crude and juvenile fashion -- those who disagree with him, being a bully at a time when we we are attempting to discourage bullying, his frequent disregard for the truth and his willingness to ridicule or marginalize people for their appearance, ethnicity or disability.

2. Jin Dong-yan:

   This is very, very worrying that these people, who are high-risk, have a poor antibody response.

3. John Christian Bovee:

   In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.

4. Joy Summers:

   It's a story of big money, and promises to the poor that they were going to get hot water, (The solar geysers) were going to save the city a huge amount of electricity. They were supposed to be locally manufactured, they were supposed to create jobs. I don't think they did any of what was supposed to happen.

5. William Shenstone:

   A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

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