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UK
/pˈɔː/
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[ US /ˈpuɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈpuɹ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by or indicating poverty
they lived in the poor section of town
the country had a poor economy -
having little money or few possessions
deplored the gap between rich and poor countries
the proverbial poor artist living in a garret -
of insufficient quantity to meet a need
short on experience
money is short
food is in short supply
on short rations
an inadequate income
the jejune diets of the very poor
a poor salary -
deserving or inciting pity
a pitiful fate
pitiable homeless children
Oh, you poor thing
his poor distorted limbs
a wretched life
a hapless victim
miserable victims of war
his poor distorted limbs
the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic
piteous appeals for help -
lacking in quality or substances
the area was poor in timber and coal
a poor land
food poor in nutritive value
the food in the cafeteria was of poor quality
NOUN
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people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
the urban poor need assistance
How To Use poor In A Sentence
- 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 The Black Bar
- 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. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- A poor game was redeemed in the second half by a couple of superb goals from Anthony Edwards.
- I was a little miffed that we'd had such a poor fishing day. Times, Sunday Times
- Compared to a Finno-Ugric language like Estonian or Hungarian, which has tons of cases with exotic names like the inessive, superessive, ablative, translative, and exessive, English seems as poor as a pauper on payday. 2009 October « Motivated Grammar
- Poor Sulkorig is dead by misadventure, his head broken by the hoof of the Lord Constable's horse. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
- But perhaps you just feel sorry for the poor rabbit. Times, Sunday Times
- Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.
- With no warning signs on either side and under poor lighting, the road is a death trap for motorists.
