poor

About 102.78 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

   We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.

2. adjective Of low quality.

   That was a poor performance.

3. adjective Worthy of pity.

   Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!

4. adjective Deficient in a specified way.

   Cow's milk is poor in iron.

5. adjective Inadequate, insufficient.

   I received a poor reward for all my hard work.

6. adjective Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
7. noun The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

   The sun shines on the rich and the poor alike but, come the rain, the rich have better umbrellas.

8. noun (Can we verify this sense?) the second-to-last placer in Tycoon

Similar words

indigent impoverished skint poverty-stricken destitute deficient moneyless hard up penniless insufficient

Often followed by

and man people in little law old to fellow

Word family

poorer poorest poorish poorness poornesses