poor

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.

Of low quality.

• That was a poor performance.

Worthy of pity.attributive

• Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!
• This poor little puppy got a nasty snake bite.

Deficient in a specified way.

• Cow's milk is poor in iron.

Inadequate, insufficient.

• I received a poor reward for all my hard work.
• Business is poor right now.

Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

• Blessed are the poor in spirit.

The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.pluralplural-only

• Then there have not always been proletarians? No. There have always been poor and working classes; and those who worked were almost always the poor. But there have not always been proletarians, just as competition has not always been free.
• The sun shines on the rich and the poor alike but, come the rain, the rich have better umbrellas.

the second-to-last placer in Tycoonpluralplural-only

A poor person.countable

• The poors are at it again.

Synonym of poor cod.obsolete

Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.raretransitive

• It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations.

To become poor.intransitiveobsolete

• The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn.

To call someone poor.obsolete

• Miss Lavinia... put in that she didn't want to be ‘poored by pa,’ or anybody else.