Poor

Definition: Poor

Poor

Adjective

1. Moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"; "he would make a poor spy".

2. 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".

3. Having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret".

4. Characterized by or indicating lack of money; "the country had a poor economy".

5. Low in degree; "expectations were poor".

6. Badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value".

7. 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".

8. Unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale".

9. Yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "poor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Bible

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Poor

Adversity

Adjective: unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous, unprosperous; hoodooed; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one's utmost need.

Feebleness

Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.

Insufficiency

Meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved, starving; halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune.

Pain

Unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone; cheerless; (dejected); careworn.

Reasoning,

Weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague.

Weakness

Languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly; (disease); dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.

Crosswords: Poor

You the poor kid that never got to go to Exeter or Andover (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Video's a poor excuse (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Harold, the poor Duke is being treated appallingly (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

There is nothing wrong with poor people (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

I was raised a white child in a poor black family (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

Ya always wuz commited, a poor single mother on welfare, (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

And my poor mother worked the mines (Stoney end; performing artist: Barbra Streisand)

It's more than my poor heart should endure (Brokenhearted; performing artist: Brandy)

Telling my poor heart (Neon Moon; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn)

Decide if you are rich or you're poor (Miss Me Blind; performing artist: Culture Club)

Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. (references; author: Groucho Marx)

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. (references; author: Mark Twain)

It is a poor workman who blames his tools. (references; author: unknown)

The woods are always empty if you're a poor hunter. (references; author: unknown)

You can't help the poor man by destroying the rich. (references; author: unknown)

Poor Cecily (1973)

Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964)

Poor Lady Ping (1963)

The Poor Man's Happiness (1954)

Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora (1949)

Poor Side Of Town (performing artist: Johnny Rivers)

POOR LITTLE FOOL  (performing artist: Rick Nelson )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Poor Leo's 2002 Computer Almanac (reference)

• Poor Richards Almanack (reference)

• Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! (reference)

• Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times (reference)

• The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Poor Little Rich Girl (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Poor House Rockers (reference)

• Willy & The Poor Boys (Dl) [SACD] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

This is advanced malignant melanoma. At the left, one can see a plaque of early, radial growth phase superficial spreading melanoma. To the right, and contiguous with the plaque, is a pink (amelanotic) nodule of deeply invasive vertical growth phase melanoma. Melanomas diagnosed at this stage have a poor prognosis; many of these patients develop metastatic disease and die from their cancer. In the majority of instances, the plaque stage of melanoma is present for a sufficient period of time to permit its diagnosis and removal before it progresses to a more advanced (and more difficult to treat) stage. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

PATHFINDER wardroom 1959 Front Row: Carter, Keltner, Stavran, Harper, Kinney Center Row: Nygren, Clark, Captain Rubottom, CME Gilgan, Popper Back Row: Poor, McCall, Meiers, Taetz, Wiener, Newton, Ten Eyck, Degroot. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A 400 kilogram (880 pounds) tuna is landed by eight fishermen. This is a difficult and dangerous time when synchronized effort is required to land the tuna. Poor timing can cause the poles to break and a fisherman to land in the water. Some fishermen have died in this manner after falling overboard and being struck by the tuna tails. Credit: Fisheries.

A mountain of oysters. Where spawning conditions are good, oysters in their natural state will attach themselves, one generation atop another, until great ridges of them exist up to high tide. However, such oysters are poor quality and of little commercial value. By spreading them out and giving them room to grow, the quality can be improved. F&W A-6151. Credit: Fisheries.

Cartoon depicting long periods at sea on the BLAKE and poor pay for supporting family. In: "Scrap Book Hydrographic Inspector's Office", 1881. Call Number QB 281.2 .S37 1881. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Figure 2. Display model of Aime's second wave study instrument built in 1839 and tested in the anchorage at Algiers in 40 meters water depth for one month. This gave negative results even during periods of poor weather. The device weighed nearly 200 pounds. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Poor landuse planning along the Upper Mississippi River bluffs. Located in Crawford County, WI, just outside of Prairie du Chein. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Thinning timber stands by removing poor trees in an important management technique. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Rock-handling Process (1908). Measured drawing delineated by Richard K. Anderson, Jr., 1978. (Reproduction Number: HAER, MI-2, sheet 18 of 34) Like many copper-mining operations on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Quincy Mining Company depended on complex processes such as the one illustrated in this HAER drawing to handle the copper and rock blasted from mines. At the company's No. 2 mine, the Shaft-Rockhouse separated the copper and rock mechanically into three distinct groups: "mass" copper (pure ore), poor rock containing little or no copper ore, and ore-rich rock and chunks larger than twenty inches. Once separated, the mass copper was shipped directly to smelters via the Great Lakes, the poor rock was crushed for use in road construction, and the material in the third group was crushed before shipment to smelters. Credit: Library of Congress.

Detail view of tops of upstream arch barrels. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, Summer 1971. (Reproduction Number: HAER, UTAH,18-SALCI,22-5) The development of the multiple-arch reinforced concrete dam by engineer John S. Eastwood took advantage of the inherent characteristics of an ancient building form to greatly reduce the needed mass of dams. Inclined, reinforced concrete barrel vaults transfer the weight of the impounded water to the ground through a series of buttresses. The downward pressure actually increases the stability of the dam by pressing it against its foundation, making it an ideal design for poor foundation conditions. Eastwood built similar dams throughout the world. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This is a poor man’s freedom; the more he is beaten, the more he implores, and he prostrates himself as he goes down in the struggle, so that he may come back a little with his teeth. (Second Treatise of Government)

It is in these words: "I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich; and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent on me as _____, according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the constitution, and laws of the United States." (reference)

This German Socialism, which took its schoolboy task so seriously and solemnly, and extolled its poor stock-in-trade in such mountebank fashion, meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic innocence. (reference)

The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. (The Gettysburg Address)

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And now, poor girl

But the poor fishermen had not so easily forgotten their property

It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry

I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the Customs

Dust, that end of all joys, was made to chastise these poor little rosebuds, when guilty of prattling

Come to Him, poor sinner, poor vain and erring sinner

Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes

Joad could see it ahead of him, its poor branches curving over the way, its load of leaves tattered and scraggly as a molting chicken

But this good prince was so gracious as to forgive the poor page his whipping, upon promise that he would do so no more, without special orders

I refer to the degraded poor, not now to the degraded rich

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The child has poor eye contact. (references)

Poor vision or blindness may result. (references)

Medicaid Illness strikes both rich and poor families. (references)

Business

Reasons for poor enforcement are numerous. (references)

Poor or mediocre service often leads to lower sales. (references)

They sometimes suffer from poor marketing and after-sales service. (references)

Children

India

Patients generally are ill-fed, denied adequate medical attention, and kept in poorly-ventilated halls with poor sanitary conditions. (references)

Bulgaria

Problems of general unemployment and a poor economy also undermined initiatives aimed at advancing equal opportunity for persons with disabilities; the great majority of persons with disabilities are unemployed. (references)

China

One study found the differential mortality rates to be highest in areas where women have a lower social status, where economic and medical conditions are poor, and where family planning regulations are strictly enforced (although the correlation for this factor was weak). (references)

Civil Liberties

Angola

There also are five commercial radio stations including the Catholic Radio Ecclesia, and Radio Lac Luanda, which openly criticized aspects of government policies and highlighted poor socioeconomic conditions. (references)

Greece

Church officials expressed concern that antiproselytizing laws remain on the books, although such laws no longer hinder their ministering to the poor and to children. (references)

Georgia

Soviet passports bearing "propiskas" (proof of legal residence in a particular locality) were accepted as proof of identity because passports and identity cards are expensive to purchase and difficult to obtain, especially in poor and remote areas. (references)

Economic History

Panama

Plans for an academic and research community (City of Knowledge) have been plagued by poor marketing and follow-through at the agency responsible for their promotion. (references)

Senegal

Senegal has qualified for interim debt relief under the International Monetary Fund and World Bank-led initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), a program supported by the U.S. Government. (references)

Portugal

In the twenty-five years since the Portuguese Revolution, Portugal has completed a remarkable transformation from the poor man of Europe to one its faster growing economies. (references)

Human Rights

China

That same year, the Supreme People's Court announced provisions to enable the poor to afford litigation, and announced that officials postponed, reduced or waived court fees in over 237,000 cases involving the poor, elderly or persons with disabilities. (references)

Colombia

On September 23, the official's brother escaped and reported that the development official was in poor health due to long forced marches and lack of medical attention for a heart condition. (references)

China

Prisoners and detainees often are kept in overcrowded conditions with poor sanitation, and their food often is inadequate and of poor quality. (references)

Indigenous People

El Salvador

As with the poor rural sector in general, access to land is a growing problem confronting indigenous people. (references)

Bolivia

Lack of education, inefficient farming and mining methods, indigenous cultural practices, and societal biases keep the indigenous people poor. (references)

Peru

Poor transportation and communications infrastructure in the highlands and in the Amazon jungle region makes political mobilization and organization difficult. (references)

Minorities

Dominican Republic

Sometimes poor Haitian families arrange for Dominican families to "adopt" and employ their children. (references)

Brazil

In Sao Paulo human rights activists continued to express concern about discrimination against blacks and poor persons from the Northeast by neo-Nazi groups in the South. (references)

South Africa

The employers cited a lack of training and development, poor recruitment processes, and an antagonistic corporate culture as the main impediments to affirmative action. (references)

Political Economy

BELGIUM

Belgian public procurement still manifests instances of poor public notification and procedural enforcement, requirements for offsets in military procurement and nontransparency in all stages of the procurement process. (references)

Kuwait

The Labor Law does not protect domestic workers, whose situation remains poor. (references)

BOLIVIA

In 1998 and 2001, Bolivia entered into the Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) I and II programs respectively. (references)

Political Rights

Congo

The central government executive in Kinshasa generally appointed governors, but once in the provinces they had considerable autonomy, due in part to poor communications and transportation infrastructure. (references)

Lesotho

Despite opposition coalition claims, the Langa Commission, composed of international observers from four southern African countries, reported no definitive findings of vote rigging or fraud; however, post-election management of electoral and polling station data was poor. (references)

Indonesia

The numerous technical problems, due to inadequate preparations and ambiguities in the regulations, included inadequate supplies of ballots and reporting forms, poor training of poll workers, confusion over procedures, and insufficient funds to pay poll workers. (references)

Trade

Thailand

Since the onset of the financial crisis in 1997, the World Bank's assistance to Thailand has focused on three major objectives to restore sustainable and more equitable growth: 1) renewing competitiveness of Thailand's private sector and labor force; 2) improving governance through enhanced private and public sector management, and 3) sharing growth and ensuring quality of life by protecting the vulnerable and targeting the poor and improving environmental management . The Bank supports Government efforts in these areas through a combination of lending, guarantees, technical assistance, and policy advice . Other forms of Bank support include analytical reports, policy notes, a program of international knowledge exchange, and public policy seminars. (references)

Poland

Until very recently commercial bank financing for U.S. exports to Poland was limited due to Poland's poor credit rating. (references)

New Zealand

Some New Zealand exporters have taken products in trade when partnering with cash poor countries such as the former Soviet bloc countries. (references)

Travel

Costa Rica

Signage is poor and sometimes confusing. (references)

Bolivia

Except for a crucial 30-Km stretch, the "new" road between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz is also paved, a new paved road from Santa Cruz to Trinidad (580 kms), will be inaugurated in August 2001. Other roads, including all overland links to Argentina and Brazil, are often impassable or extremely slow from time to time due to regularly occurring rain coupled with poor maintenance. (references)

Latvia

However, quick response is poor in rural areas. (references)

Women

South Africa

There is an extremely high incidence of rape for reasons including a poor general security climate and societal attitudes condoning sexual violence against women. (references)

Qatar

This NGO is run entirely by women, and focuses on the health and education of, and provision of assistance to, women and children, particularly the poor. (references)

Botswana

The Metlhaetsile Women's Information Centre, which provided legal assistance to poor women, dissolved during the year; however, it was trying to reorganize under a different name at year's end. (references)

Worker Rights

Philippines

Most child labor is in the informal sector, most often in family settings, and the Government rarely if ever seeks to prosecute a poor family because they have a working child. (references)

Burma

Surplus labor conditions, a poor economy, and lack of protection by the Government continue to dictate substandard conditions for workers. (references)

Portugal

Poor environmental controls in textile production also cause considerable concern. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The poor of the Lord

The poor of the Lord

Poor

That is poor

Making poor

Poor

Poor

Poor

Poor

Poor

Expressions using "poor": a poor consolation ♦ a poor devil ♦ a poor fellow ♦ a poor hand on the violin ♦ a poor trencherman ♦ be a poor eater ♦ be a poor sailor ♦ be a poor whip ♦ be as poor as a church mouse ♦ be in poor health ♦ be in poor spirits ♦ be poor ♦ became poor ♦ become poor ♦ casual poor ♦ cut a poor figure ♦ dog poor ♦ grow poor ♦ guardian of the poor ♦ Guardians of the poor ♦ have a poor ear for music ♦ have a poor hand ♦ have poor eyesight ♦ have poor judgement ♦ hospice for the poor ♦ however poor he may be ♦ in my poor opinion ♦ in poor health ♦ in poor physical shape ♦ in poor spirits ♦ in poor taste ♦ Little Sisters of the Poor ♦ make poor ♦ miserably poor ♦ of poor physique ♦ of poor quality ♦ poor as a church mouse ♦ poor attendance ♦ poor beggar ♦ poor beggar! ♦ poor behavior ♦ poor behaviour ♦ poor box ♦ poor boy ♦ poor chance ♦ poor chap! ♦ poor child! ♦ poor children ♦ poor Clares ♦ poor compliment ♦ poor copy ♦ poor country ♦ poor cousin ♦ poor creature ♦ poor crop ♦ poor cropper ♦ poor devil ♦ poor devil! ♦ poor excuse ♦ poor fellow ♦ poor fellow! ♦ poor figure ♦ poor fish ♦ poor fusion ♦ poor harvest ♦ poor health ♦ poor hearing ♦ poor heart ♦ poor house ♦ poor imitator ♦ poor in ♦ poor in spirit ♦ poor law ♦ poor laws ♦ poor lime ♦ poor little thing! ♦ poor little wretch! ♦ poor looking ♦ poor man ♦ poor management ♦ poor manners ♦ poor man's Einstein ♦ poor man's goods ♦ poor man's orchid ♦ poor man's pulse ♦ poor man's treacle ♦ poor man's weatherglass ♦ poor me! ♦ poor men ♦ poor mouth ♦ poor people ♦ poor performance ♦ poor person ♦ poor poll ♦ poor polling ♦ poor progress ♦ poor quality ♦ poor quarter ♦ poor ranking ♦ poor rate ♦ poor rates. Additional references.

Beginning with "poor": poor-box, poor-country, poor-from, poor-house, Poor-john, Poor-law, poor-little-baby, poor-looking, poor-man, poor-miss-taylor-that-was, poor-mouth, poor-mouthed, poor-moving, poor-net, poor-poo-ray-a, poor-quality, poor-rate, poor-relief, poor-selling, poor-sighted, Poor-spirited, Poor-spiritedness, poor-the, poor-thing-he, poor-thing-how-you-must-be-suffering-thank-god-i'm-not, poor-tithe, Poor-will, Poor-willie, poor-world.

Ending with "poor": base-poor, dirt-poor, non-poor, nutrient-poor, piss-poor, rich-poor, species-poor.

Containing "poor": let's-stay-poor-together, piss-poor-job, rich-little-poor-girl, we-are-poor-therefore, whip-poor-will.

Afrikaans

sleg (bad, badly, miserable, nasty), kwaai (bad, miserable, nasty), arm (arm, miserable), beroerd (abject, bad, dismal, meager, miserable, nasty, wretched), beklagenswaardig (dismal, miserable, pitiful), beklaenswaardig (dismal, miserable, pitiful), beklaaglik (dismal, miserable, pitiful). (various references)

Albanian

nevojtar (necessitous, needy), keq (awry, bad, badly, downhill, foul, miserable, nasty, poorly), i vobektë, i varfanjak, i varfër (bad, beggarly, destitute, fortuneless, impecunious, indigent, lame, lazarus, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, miserable, one horse, penurious, spare, squalid, wretched), i shkretë (blessed, desert, deserted, desolate, devoid of inhabitants, inhospitable, lifeless, lonely, lonesome, waste, wild), i pakët (exiguous, few, lean, limited, little, low, marginal, meager, meagre, measly, modest, narrow, picayune, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, skimpy, slender, small, spare, sparing, thin, wee), i ngratë (unfortunate), i keq (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blinking, bodeful, cancerous, catty, cheesy, crook, dark, defective, dubious, evil, heavy, ill, ill disposed, ill natured, ill-conditioned, lousy, low-grade, malign, malignant, nasty, naughty, perverse, punk, shady, shoddy, sinister, ugly, vicious, vile, wicked), i gjorë (piteous, unfortunate, unlucky), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), fukara (poor man). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏ردئ (bad, base, bastard, bum, coarse, common, doggie, evil, fearful, fiendish, foul, ill, inferior, nice, paltry, poorness, putrid, second rate, slim, sour, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, watery), ‏الفقير (pauper), ‏ضعيف المستوى, ‏عادي (average, banal, classless, common, commonplace, conventional, household, lay, mean, medial, mediocre, middling, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, plain, plebeian, prosaic, run of the mill, second rate, simple, some, stock, trivial, unexceptional, wont), ‏عاجز (decrepit, disabled, effete, feckless, helpless, incapable, incompetent, ineffective, inert, infirm, invalid, paralysed, paralyzed, powerless, unable), ‏زهيد (cheap, paltry, piddling, scanty, scrimpy, small, trivial), ‏بائس (afflicted, cheerless, deplorable, desolate, devil, disconsolate, distressed, forlorn, godforsaken, hapless, heel, helpless, lamentable, measly, miserable, paltry, pathetic, penurious, piteous, pitiful, poverty stricken, ratty, sad, scruffy, seedy, sickly, sordid, squalid, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched), ‏غير كافئ (incommensurate, short), فقير (poor man), ‏نحيل (bony, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, raw boned, skinny, slender, slight, slim, small, svelte, thin), ‏معاني, ‏معوز (destitute, down and out, indigent, infelicitous, insolvent, lack, necessitous, needy, pauper, poverty stricken, starveling), ‏مسكين (poor fellow), ‏محتاج (in need, indigent, necessitous, needy, pauper), ‏فقير (destitute, fakir, indigent, low-income, moneyless, necessitous, needy, ownerless, pauper, penurious, poor mouth, poverty stricken), ‏في حالة متدهورة, ‏سقيم (below par, ill, puny, rickety, sick, sickly, unwell, wan). (various references)

Basque

gizaixo. (various references)

Bulgarian 

слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), клет (miserable, pitiable, woeful), горък, нуждаещ се (necessitous), нещастен (abject, hapless, ill fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, lack-all, lorn, sick, unblessed, unchancy, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, woeful, wretched), незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), недостоен (discreditable, undeserving, unworthy), недоброкачествен (poor quality), жалък (abject, lamentable, mangy, miserable, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pokey, sad, scabbed, scabby, scaly, scrubby, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, woeful), лош (bad, chronic, cobbler, evil, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, nasty, naughty, rough, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, sorry, thumping, ugly, vicious, wicked, wrong), беден (fortuneless, humble, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jejune, meager, meagre, mean, moneyless, necessitous, needful, needy, penniless, penurious, pokey, poky, poorly off, poverty stricken, scanty, shabby, tenuous, thin), дребен (dinky, dwarf, finical, finicking, finicky, insignificant, little, minor, niggling, paltry, peddling, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pokey, poky, potty, puerile, puny, pygmy, rabbity, sawed-off, shabby, short, small, small time, small-scale, trifling, trivial, undersized, unimportant, venial). (various references)

Catalan

pobre (miserable). (various references)

Chinese 

貧苦 (poverty-stricken), 貧窮 (impoverished), 貧 , 窶 (rustic), 窮 (exhausted), 穷, 敝 (defeated, my, ruined, shabby, worn out), 差勁 , 差 (a messenger, a mission, difference, different, discrepancy, error, send, short of, to commission, to differ, to err, to lack, to make a mistake, uneven), 寒 (cold, to tremble), 寠 (rustic). (various references)

Czech

ubohý (crappy, deplorable, dingy, dismal, down in the mouth, grotty, miserable, paltry, pitiable, sleazy, wretched), chudý (disadvantaged, impecunious, lean, needy, scanty, thin, underprivileged). (various references)

Danish

fattig (miserable), slet (bad, miserable, nasty), ond (bad, miserable, nasty), dårlig (bad, miserable, nasty). (various references)

Dutch

beklagenswaardig (dismal, miserable, pitiful), arm (arm, crank, miserable). (various references)

Esperanto

povra, malriĉa (miserable), malbona (bad, miserable, nasty), kompatinda (dismal, miserable, pitiful). (various references)

Faeroese

ringur (bad, miserable, nasty, ring), neyðarsligur, neyðars (abject, dismal, meager, miserable, wretched), fátækur (gaunt, lean, meager, miserable, skimpy, skinny, thin). (various references)

Farsi 

فقیر (Penurious), پست (Abacinate, Abject, Cheap, Common, Currish, Despicable, Earthborn, Humble, Infamous, Inferior, Lily, Little, Mail, Menial, Peevish, Runty, Ungenerous, Venal, Vile, Villain, Villainous, Vulgar, Wretch, Wretched), مسکین , مستمند, معدود (Little, Paucity, Scant), نامرغوب (Inferior, Raunchy), ناچیز (Inconsequential, Inconsiderable, Little, Meager, Negligible, Nugatory, Pelting, Peppercorn, Piddling, Runty, Scrimp, Straw, Teeny, Trifle, Trivial, Vain), دون (Low, Lowly, Ribald, Servile, Shabby, Small, Sordid), بینوا (Destitute, Unblessed, Unblest), بی پول (Broke, Impecunious). (various references)

Finnish

köyhä (indigent, needy). (various references)

French

pauvre (poor fellow), maigre, mauvais, faible. (various references)

Frisian

heukerich (abject, dismal, meager, miserable, wretched), earmoedich (miserable), earm (arm, miserable). (various references)

German

arm (arm, beam, beggarly, bracket, branch, indigent, indigently, lacking, miserable, penurious, penuriously, poorly, ray of starfish, sparse), schlecht (Amiss, bad, bad (worse, badly, chronic, corrupt, decayed, evil, faulty, foul, hard, ill, inferior, lamentable, lamentably, low, maladjusted, miserable, nasty, off, poorly, sick, stale, terribly, uneasy, unhealthy, unkind, unpalatable, unsatisfactory, unsavory, unsavoury, unsuitably, wicked, wrong), mangelhaft (defective, defectively, deficient, faultily, faulty, imperfect, inadequate, insufficient, unsatisfactory), mager (emaciated, fatless, gaunt, hungry, infertile, lank, lean, leanly, low fat, meager, meagre, rawboned, scant, scanty, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin, weak), dürftig (feeble, impoverished, insubstantial, lame, meager, meagre, miserable, necessitous, paltry, pathetic, penurious, penuriously, pitiable, poorly, scant, scanty, sketchy, skimpily, skimpy, slender, spare, sparse, sparsely, tenuous, thinly, unsubstantial, wretched), armselig (mean, miserable, necessitous, paltrily, paltry, pathetic, penurious, penuriously, piteous, pitiful, scrubby, squalid, squalidly, wretched). (various references)

Greek 

κακομοίρησ (miserable), καημένος, πενιχρός (meager, meagre, wretched), πτωχόσ (destitute, indigent), φτωχόσ (unprivileged), φτωχός (flimsy, impoverished), ταλαίπωροσ (miserable). (various references)

Guarani

anga (poor of [mine]). (various references)

Hawaiian

keq (bad, badly, miserable, nasty). (various references)

Hebrew 

מך (humble), מעוט (limited, meagre, minimum, minority, paucity, scanty), מסכן (hapless, miserable, pitiful, poor thing, unfortunate, wretched), ירוד (inferior, low, reduced), קלוקל (corrupt, defective, inferior, rotten, spoilt), עלוב (abject, god forsaken, humbled, mean, measly, miserable, pitiful, seamy, worthless, wretched), עני (impecunious, indigent, miserable, pauper, penurious, poor person, wretched), אומלל (disconsolate, feeble, hapless, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched), דך (crushed, lowly, oppressed, wretched), דל (humble, light, meagre, miserable, penurious, scanty, spare), רש. (various references)

Hungarian

szegény (beggar, hungry, impecunious, indigent, lowly born, miserable, needy, pauper, penniless, poor person, skint, to be skint). (various references)

Icelandic

vondur (bad, miserable, nasty), slæmur (bad, miserable, nasty), illur (bad, miserable, nasty), fátækur (miserable). (various references)

Indonesian

papa (daddy, destitute, father), miskin (beggarly, destitute, indigent, needy), malang (baleful, down, hapless, unlucky), kaum miskin, fakir (destitute, indigent). (various references)

Irish

olc (bad, miserable, nasty), dona (bad, miserable, nasty, unlucky; bad), daibhir, bocht. (various references)

Italian

povero (abject, arm, bare, beggarly, dismal, indigent, meager, meagre, miserable, needy, poor man, unfortunate, wretched), cattivo (airy-fairy, bad, evil, foul, frolic, frolicsome, ill, ill natured, mad, malicious, miserable, nasty, naughty, perverse, petulant, spiteful, unkind, vicious, wicked), magro (gaunt, lame, lean, low fat, meager, meagre, narrow, scant, scraggy, scrawny, skimmed, skimpy, skinny, slight, slim, thin, thinly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

貧しい. (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

プア , びんぼう (destitute, poverty), ひんじゃく (insubstantial, meagre), まずしい (needy), ほそぼそ (very narrow), にがて (dislike, weak), せつあく (bad situation, low quality), かすか (dim, faint, hazy, indistinct, weak, wretched), かれん (cute, lovely, oppression, pitiful, sweet), かわいそう (pathetic, pitiable), かんばしくない (disgraceful, unfavourable), へた (awkward, calyx, stem, unskillful), とぼしい (destitute, hard up, limited, meagre, scanty, scarce), ともしい (destitute, hard up, limited, meagre, scanty, scarce). (various references)

Korean 

가난한. (various references)

Lombard

poverett (miserable), gram (bad, miserable, nasty). (various references)

Manx

moalley, moal (backward, belated, decrepit, deliberate, deplorable, dim, disappointing, dull, enfeebled, feeble, flimsy, gradual, ill, laggard, late, late of fruit, listless, meagre, overdue, pithless, poorly, scraggy, slack, slow, sorry, tardy, tawdry, unimpressive, weak, weak as faith, wretched, wretched of thing), boght (deprived, grotty, miserable, pauper, shabby, shoddy, skinny). (various references)

Norwegian

stakkars, fattig (miserable), dårlig (bad, miserable, nasty). (various references)

Occitan

paure. (various references)

Papiamen

pober (beggar, miserable), malu (bad, badly, ill, miserable, nasty, sick, unwell), malo (bad, ill, miserable, nasty, sick, unwell). (various references)

Pig Latin

oorpay.(various references)

Polish

zły (bad, miserable, nasty), biedny (miserable). (various references)

Portuguese

pobre (almsman, beggar, beggarly, close-fisted, destitute, eleemosynary, hard set, hungry, indigent, jejune, lazarus, lean, mean, mendicant, miserable, necessitous, needy, pauper, penniless, penurious, shabby), mau (bad, bum, dark, evil, graceless, ill, ill-conditioned, ill-favored, ill-favoured, malignant, mischievous, miserable, nasty, perverse, punk, sinful, two-bit, unjust, unrighteous, venomous, vicious, vile, villainous, wrong), ruim (bad, mean, miserable, nasty, perverse, rotten, ugly). (various references)

Romanian

prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), calicesc (beggarly, miserable, wretched), deficitar (scanty), insuficient (defective, deficient, exiguous, inadequate, inadequately, inappropriate, insufficient, insufficiently, meager, meagre, scant, scanty, scarce, unsatisfactorily), mic (Chitty, chopping, contemptible, dwarfish, exiguous, little, low, mincing, minor, narrow, petty, pimping, poky, pony, puny, scrubby, shallow, shoe string, short, slender, slight, small, undersized, weak, wee, young), nehrãnitor (innutritious), biet (miserable, piteous, unfortunate, unlucky), råu (bad, miserable, nasty), vrednic de dispreţ (contemptible, despicable, pitiable, reprehensible), sãrãcãcios (baldly, barely, barren, humble, mean, meanly, miserable, modest, penurious, poky, poorly, poverty stricken, scant, shabby, slender, sorry, sparing), sãrac (barren, beggarly, destitute, empty, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, lean, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, needful, needy, pauper, peeled, penniless, penurious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor man, poverty stricken, scanty, small, sterile, stingy, void), sãrman (indigent, pauper, poor devil, wretched), sårac (miserable), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), umil (humble, humbly, low, lowly, mean, meek, modest, small, submissive), neproductiv (fruitless, lean, non-productive, unproductive). (various references)

Russian 

бедный (beggarly, hand-to-mouth, impecunious, lean, livid, low-lived, miserable, one horse, penurious, poverty stricken, poverty-stricken). (various references)

Scottish

bochd (miserable, poor person, sick). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slab (dickey, dicky, feckless, feeble, flabby, frail, infirm, languid, languorous, low, meager, meagre, nerveless, powerless, punk, remote, short, sickly, slim, tenuous, thin, trick, undernourished, unlikely, washy, weak), siromah (pauper), siromašan (destitute, have not, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, needy, pauper, underprivileged), oskudan (barren, deficient, destitute, exiguous, meager, meagre, necessitous, needy, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, short, shy, skimpy, spare, sparing, stingy, stringent, tight), nikakav (needy, no, none, pelting, trashy), neplodan (barren, infertile, sterile, unfruitful), loš (abominable, bad, gross, lousy, mean, miserable, refuse, shoddy, trashy, vile), jadan (deplorable, jejune, lamentable, miserable, pelting, piteous, pitiable, wretched), bedan (abject, beggarly, crummy, distressful, lamentable, mangy, miserable, needy, pelting, pitiable, rubbishy, squalid, wretched), štur. (various references)

Spanish

pobre (abject, beggar, destitute, dismal, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jimp, meager, meagre, mingy, miserable, miserly, needy, pathetic, pathetical, pauper, penurious, scrappy, wretched), malo (Amiss, bad, black-hearted, bum, difficult, disagreeable, disgusting, erroneous, evil, evil-wishing, hard, ill, inconvenient, lower, mischievous, miserable, mistaken, nasty, naughty, ornery, punk, sick, tacky, tough, troubled, unsound, villain, wicked, wretched, wrong), miserable (abject, beggarly, dismal, meager, measly, miserable, moldy, mouldy, paltry, sordid, squalid, twopenny, wretched), indigente (destitute, indigent, miserable, necessitous, needy), deplorable (deplorable, dismal, miserable, pitiful, regrettable). (various references)

Sranan

poti (lay down, miserable, place, put, put down), pina (abide, bear, endure, miserable, put up with, suffer), ogri (bad, miserable, nasty), kway (bad, miserable, nasty). (various references)

Swahili

maskini (miserable), hafifu (faint, light, miserable, weak). (various references)

Swedish

fattig (impecunious, impoverished, indigent, meagre, miserable, necessitous, needy, paltry, penurious, poverty-striken), dålig (bad, evil, foul, funny, ignoble, ill, indifferent, inferior, miserable, nasty, off, poorly, sick, unsound, unwell, weak), torftig (austere, barren, insubstantial, jejune, meagre, needy, penurious, scanty, skimpy, threadbare), stackars, arm (arm, branch, destitute, miserable, wretched). (various references)

Tagalog

masamâ (bad, miserable, nasty), mahírap (miserable). (various references)

Turkish

kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), fena (angrily, bad, badly, evil, foul, ill, malicious, miserable, nasty, poorly, sinful, sinister, unholy, vicious, wicked). (various references)

Turkmen 

myrtar (bad), gedaя (beggar, poor person), garyp. (various references)

Ukrainian

кепський (bad, dying, miserable, moldy, mouldy, nasty, naught, naughty), нужденний (destitute, helpless, indigent, miserable, necessitous, needful, needy, penniless, poverty stricken, poverty-struck), нещасний (abject, disastrous, sinister, unfortunate, wretched), незначний (bare, exiguous, imponderable, inconsiderable, inessential, insignificant, little, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nugacious, off, one horse, outside, petty, potty, puny, pygmy, slender, slight, small, trivial), незаможний (beggar, have not), неприємний (acerbic, bad, beastly, brackish, disagreeable, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, grisly, hack, importune, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, painful, plaguy, provoking, snooty, tedious, ugly, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unlovable, unloveable, unlovely, unpleasant, unwelcome), непоживний (unsubstantial), недостатній (defective, deficient, meager, meagre, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimpy, wanting), ниций (rascally, sinister), жалюгідний (abject, beggarly, caitiff, contemptible, deplorable, forlorn, impoverished, lamentable, mean, miserable, parsimonious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, queachy, snide, sorry, tatty, woeful, woesome, wretched), бідняки, бідний (bare, barren, destitute, fortuneless, lean, necessitous, needful, needy, one horse, pauper, penurious, scrannel, shabby, tenuous, underprivileged), покійний (deceased, defunct, departed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

yếu thô thiển đáng thương, tầm thường (characterless, fiddle-faddle, fiddling, inconsequential, jerkwater, picayune, platitudinarian, platitudinous, prosy, soulless, straw, trivial, unideal, uninsprired), tội nghiệp đáng khinh, tồi (deplorable, doggerel, foul, illy, poorly, punk, rotten, third-rate, threepenny, trashy, wretched), nghèo (fortuneless, shoestring), không đáng kể hèn nhát, kém (coarse, less, low, third-rate, vile), hèn hạ (abject, base, basely, blithering, despicable, dirtily, dirty, dishonourable, meanly, picayune, scabbily, scurvy, shabby, vile), bần cùng xấu. (various references)

Welsh

tlawd (destitute, miserable). (various references)

Yucatec

otsil (miserable), k'as (bad, miserable, nasty). (various references)

Zulu

-mpofu (miserable), -bolile (bad, miserable, nasty), -bi (bad, miserable, nasty). (various references)

angusta, angustam, angusti, angustiorem, angusto, angustos, angustum, angustus, egens, egentem, egentes, egenti, egentis, egentium, exigua, exigui, exiguo, exiguum, exile, humile, humilem, humiles, humili, humilia, humilibus, humilior, humiliora, humiliorem, humiliores, humilis, humilium, humillima, inope, inopem, inopes, inopi, inopia, inopis, inops, inopum, levidensis, macer, malus, miser, misera, miseram, miseri, miseris, misero, miseros, miserrima, pauper, paupercula, pauperculam, pauperculum, paupere, pauperem, pauperes, pauperi, pauperibus, pauperis, pauperum, penuriosus, phaulius. (various references)

earm. (various references)

darvesh, darvish. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "poor": poorer, poorest, poorhouse, poorhouses, poori, pooris, poorish, poorly, poorness, poornesses, poortith, poortiths. (additional references)

Words ending with "poor": nonpoor, spoor. (additional references)

Words containing "poor": spoored, spooring, spoors, whippoorwill, whippoorwills. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Poor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apor, apour, oor, opar, opo, opoe, oppor, opport, opr, Panor, Paor, peooow, peoz, pero, Pforr, pgood, phoof, phor, Phorr, Pibor, picor, piof, piri, Piro, pivor, plor, plour, poar, poare, Poari, pobo, pobr, pocor, podo, poer, poho, Pohorje, poir, pojo, Pokot, Pomo, pomr, Ponor, poo, poob, pooc, poog, pooir, pooj, pook, Poom, Pooof, pooq, poore, poori, poorn, poors, Poort, poot, pooz, popr, por, Porec, porex, poro, poros, porq, porr, poui, pouri, pourt, pouru, poury, povo, proar, pror, Prozor, psor, psora, pubr, Pujo, puoh, puoi, purb, purm, Pwooor, zoor. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pro.

-2 letters: op, or.

+1 letter: droop, orlop, poori, porno, promo, proof, proso, sopor, spoor, troop.

+2 letters: cooper, droops, droopy, hooper, looper, morpho, operon, orlops, pogrom, poorer, pooris, poorly, pornos, porose, porous, prolog, promos, pronto, proofs, prosos, proton, scroop, sopors, spoors, torpor, troops, uproot, uropod.

+3 letters: apropos, blooper, carpool, comport, coopers, coopery, corpora, drooped, dropout, foretop, goopier, gosport, harpoon, hoopers, loopers, loopier, morphos, nonpoor, nonpros, oosperm, oospore, operons, operose, opposer, outcrop, outdrop, outport, outpour, overtop, pandoor, parodoi, parodos, partook, patroon, pogroms, polaron, poofter, poorest, poorish, popcorn, popover, porcino, portico, portion, prebook, preboom, precook, precool, prenoon, proctor, prologs, prolong, promote, pronota, pronoun, proofed, proofer, propone, propose, prosody, prosoma, protons, proviso, provoke, provost, proximo, reproof, rollmop, rolltop, rooftop, scooper, scroops, snooper, soprano, soursop, sponsor, spoofer, spoored, sporoid, stooper, swooper, taproom, taproot, topwork, torpedo, torpors, towrope, trollop, trooped, trooper, uproots, uropods, whooper.