poor vs rich vs wealthy
Definitions
adjective
- characterized by or indicating poverty
- having little money or few possessions
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- deserving or inciting pity
- lacking in quality or substances
noun
- people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
Examples
The poor bugger has nowhere else to sleep.
Dance the coxswain was the first affected in that way, but after a few moments Mark felt that the poor fellow had been suffering in
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
Definitions
adjective
- marked by richness and fullness of flavor
- marked by great fruitfulness
- affording an abundant supply
- of great worth or quality
- suggestive of or characterized by great expense
noun
- people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group)
Examples
Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living.
Druses were common throughout the mesophyll tissues, and peltate, glandular trichomes were present on both epidermises.
Schedule 3 comprises a number of toxic or precursor chemicals with widespread industrial uses, such as phosgene, hydrogen cyanide, phosphorus trichloride and thionyl chloride.
