Poor

What do we mean by poor?

Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society. adjective

Relating to or characterized by poverty. adjective

Deficient or lacking in a specified resource or quality. adjective

Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior. adjective

Negative, unfavorable, or disapproving. adjective

Undernourished; lean. Used especially of animals. adjective

Humble; meek. adjective

Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable. adjective

Poor people considered as a group. noun

To pet in a pitying, compassionate way.

In England, a gadoid fish, Gadus minutus. noun

Possessing little; destitute of wealth: opposed to rich: as, a poor man; a poor community.

Lacking means to procure the comforts of life; indigent; needy; necessitous; specifically, in law, so destitute or impoverished as to be dependent upon charity, or upon the poorrates; pauper.

Deficient in or destitute of desirable or essential qualities; lacking those qualities which render a thing valuable, desirable, suitable, or sufficient for its purpose; inferior; bad: as, poor bread; poor health; cattle in poor condition.

In particular— Of little consequence; trifling; insignificant; paltry: as, a poor excuse.

Mean; shabby: as, a poor outfit; poor surroundings.

Lean; meager; emaciated: as, poor cattle.

Lacking in fertility; barren; exhausted: as, poor land.

Lacking in spirit or vigor; feeble; impotent.

(with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

Words that are spelled similarly to poor:
poor.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word poor:
needy, visibility, sanitation, whites, condition, afford, quality, sick, conditions, ratings, weather, reception, poverty, health, rich, relief, lack, attendance, repair, performance.

Words that rhyme with poor:
grandeur, raconteur, voyeur, ure, doer, de rigueur, force majeure, rigueur, coeur, majeure, pasteur, darfur, louis pasteur, sieur, poore, delusions of grandeur, kapoor, mcclure, koor, secteur, fuer, mclure, mccluer, well-doer, yoor.

Adjectives that are often used to describe poor:
rural, urban, sick, very, elderly, black, rich, landless, industrious, aged, irish, deserving, bodied, unemployed, homeless, english, impotent, idle, helpless, honest, immigrant, indigent, undeserving, insane, absolute, anti, casual, respectable, hungry, needy, agricultural, worthy, neighbouring, nonworking, destitute, global, chronically, extreme, humble, excellent, wretched, unfortunate, uneducated, near, abject, virtuous, illiterate, miserable, dependent, pious, necessitous, indigenous, distressed, migrant, mexican, vagrant, infant, outdoor, desperate, ignorant, poorest, invisible, houseless, metropolitan, disreputable, oppressed.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective poor:
man, people, fellow, woman, girl, thing, quality, performance, child, health, boy, children, countries, women, creature, men, mother, families, soul, conditions, condition, creatures, prognosis, peasants, devil, relief, father, whites, country, fellows, family, wretch, results, lady, souls, control, wife, management, soil, farmers, wretches, dear, households, friend, nutrition, judgment, lad, devils, widow, parents, heart, rates, substitute, girls, readers, outcome, soils, laws, skills, students, hygiene, chap, boys, guy, communities, brother, gentleman, diet, nations, record, kid, fool, folk, animal, habits, beast, opinion, choice, job, peasant, communication, neighborhoods, housing, design, showing.

Consonant match to poor:
peer, pair, par, pear, pier, pour, pare, pore, parr, por, paar, poore, porr, poire.

Words that sound like poor:
poor, poore, power, pair, pour, pear, peer, par, pier, pore, pyre, pire, pare, payer, por, parr, peir, poer, pir, paer, powr, porr, pyar, peart, paar, poar, perr, paire, p.a, poir, payor, pyr, pawer, paur, poyer, p.r, buer, booher, poo, per, purr, pooh, pur, pooper, poorer, pu, poos, poors, pere, pooter, pou, ppor, pooler, pter, plar, prr, pua, puer, pooser, poort, pker, puz, poori, puah, plor, pui, plr, pmr, purre, puu, perh, pwr, parure, poui, puw, puler, pousser, ppar, bear, bar, beer, bare, bauer, barre, barr, baer, bair, bayer, baur, beare, baar, baehr, bahr, behr, beere, bahre, baier, b.a, bayar, baeyer.