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Poor

adjective

(compar. poorer; superl. poorest)

1.

Deserving or inciting pity. Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched. "Miserable victims of war" , "The shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic" , "Piteous appeals for help" , "Pitiable homeless children" , "A pitiful fate" , "Oh, you poor thing" , "His poor distorted limbs" , "A wretched life"

2.

Having little money or few possessions. "The proverbial poor artist living in a garret" Antonym: rich.

3.

Characterized by or indicating poverty. "They lived in the poor section of town" Antonym: rich.

4.

Lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances. "The area was poor in timber and coal" , "Food poor in nutritive value" Antonym: rich.

5.

Not sufficient to meet a need. Synonyms: inadequate, short. "A poor salary" , "Money is short" , "On short rations" , "Food is in short supply" , "Short on experience"

6.

Unsatisfactory. "Poor morale" , "Expectations were poor"

noun

1.

People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group). Synonym: poor people. Antonyms: rich people, rich.

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"Poor" Quotes from Famous Books

... and in the foregoing chapter we laid down the rule: Guard the avenues of impression and admit only such things as you wish to retain. This necessitates that you go slowly at first. This is a principle of all habit formation, but is especially important in habits of memorizing. Much of the poor memory that people complain about is due to the fact that they make first impressions carelessly. One reason why people fail to remember names is that they do not get a clear impression of the name at the start. They are ...

— How to Use Your Mind • Harry D. Kitson

... his illustration of this great principle gave Dickens the hint of his Dotheboy's Hall. You remember, doubtless, poor Harry Farmar's false quantity, and how Plunkett made him peel onions till he cried his eyes out; asserting his confidence in Horace's maxim, and that he had found the usual box on the ear quite incapable of any exciting effect on Harry's mind. Who would have said ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various

... the engagement with Polly, and sitting in the parlour cried a little, and was sorry. But then "poor little Agnes" cried so easily nowadays. Richard said her nerves had been shattered by the terrible affair just before Christmas, when Mr. Glendinning had tried first to kill her, and then to cut ...

— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson

... quoth he. "Everybody gets bald. The wisest people in the world lose their hair. Kings and generals, rich people and poor people, they are all bald! It is not a disgrace," said he; and he trod soberly forward in ...

— Here are Ladies • James Stephens

... Commission soon reached Boston [Sept. 19, 1634;] and it was at the same time rumoured that a Governor-General was on his way. The intelligence awakened the most intense interest in the whole colony, and led to the boldest measures. Poor as the new settlements were, six hundred pounds were raised towards fortifications; 'and the assistants and the deputies discovered their minds to one another,' and the fortifications were hastened. All the ministers assembled ...

— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Egerton Ryerson

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