poor in English

adjective

1

lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society.

people who were too poor to afford a telephone

2

worse than is usual, expected, or desirable; of a low or inferior standard or quality.

her work was poor

synonyms: substandard, below par, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, inferior, appalling, abysmal, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, unsatisfactory, second-rate, third-rate, tinpot, shoddy, crude, lamentable, deplorable, inadequate, unacceptable, crummy, lame, crappy, dismal, bum, rotten

3

(of a person) considered to be deserving of pity or sympathy.

they inquired after poor Dorothy's broken hip

synonyms: unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, unhappy, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, pitiable, pitiful, wretched

adjective

poverty-stricken, penniless, moneyless, impoverished, low-income, necessitous, impecunious, indigent, needy, destitute, pauperized, unable to make ends meet, without a sou, insolvent, in debt, without a cent (to one's name), (flat) broke, hard up, cleaned out, strapped, penurious
substandard, below par, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, inferior, appalling, abysmal, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, unsatisfactory, second-rate, third-rate, tinpot, shoddy, crude, lamentable, deplorable, inadequate, unacceptable, crummy, lame, crappy, dismal, bum, rotten
meager, scanty, scant, paltry, disappointing, limited, reduced, modest, insufficient, inadequate, sparse, spare, deficient, insubstantial, skimpy, short, small, lean, slender, measly, stingy, pathetic, piddling, exiguous
unproductive, barren, unyielding, unfruitful, arid, sterile
deficient in, lacking in, wanting in, weak in, short of, low on
unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, unhappy, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, pitiable, pitiful, wretched
pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, miserable, hapless, wretched, piteous
short, inadequate

noun

poor people
poor people

Use "poor" in a sentence

1. * poor nutrition and poor general health

2. Poor Penmanship Many work-inhibited students have poor penmanship.

3. Poor Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Mobilization or Poor Harvest?

4. " Piss poor "?

5. Poor u!

6. Poor people.

7. Poor dear.

8. A proper poor economy where so many are proper poor,

9. If the associations are poor, the effects will be poor.

10. Poor Blanche.

11. Poor lady.

12. Alack, poor Richard!

13. Poor user acceptance.

14. Poor helpless Rome!

15. Poor white trash.

16. Poor fat bastard.

17. Your poor sister.

18. Poor old Piglet.

19. You poor fool.

20. Oh, poor you.

21. Poor old nanny.

22. Poor old cat.

23. I'm too poor.

24. Poor but honest.

25. Poor diet generally results in poor work, makes people more accident-prone.

26. This poor schmuck.

27. Poor flat bastard.

28. Poor communication skills.

29. Poor diet generally results in poor work and makes people more accident-prone.

30. The poor guard rail.

31. She's rich, you're poor.

32. Rich Lands and Poor.

33. His geography is poor.

34. Poor-relief and “efficacious Assuagings of distress” The reform of the Elizabethan Poor Laws with the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834 provided statutory recognition of society’s changing attitudes towards the poor

35. Poor love-addled fool.

36. Blood makes poor mortar.

37. She's a poor correspondent .

38. * Poor appetite or vomiting

39. Our family was poor.

40. They're poor but proud.

41. My poor little treasure.

42. “My family is poor.

43. Poor girl seems miserable.

44. I've had poor circulation.

45. He's a poor draughtsman.

46. They aided the poor.

47. Spelling errors, poor grammar, poor page layout all add up to an inferior presentation.

48. They tend to aggravate rather than improve the poor self-esteem, poor individual coping skills and poor emotional maturity in the primary sufferer.

49. Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. Benjamin Franklin 

50. Speculation is a poor form of investment and an equally poor form of politics.