Poor
[adj] 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"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
[adj] yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil"
[adj] unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"
[adj] low in degree; "expectations were poor"
[adj] having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"
[adj] badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"
[adj] characterized by or indicating lack of money; "the country had a poor economy"
[adj] 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"
[adj] moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"; "he would make a poor spy"
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Synonyms
bad, beggarly, broke, bust, deficient, destitute, hapless, hard up, hardscrabble, impecunious, impoverished, in straitened circumstances(p), inadequate, indigent, inferior, insufficient, low, mean, mediocre, miserable, misfortunate, moneyless, necessitous
Related Terms
abject, abominable, abstemious, against, amateurish, arrant, artless, ascetic, atrocious, attenuated, austere, awful, bad, badly off, bankrupt, bare-handed, barren, base, beggared, beggarly, below par, beneath contempt, broke, bumbling, cadaverous, cheap,