poor
With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
Adjective 4 meanings
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.
“Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!”
Deficient in a specified way.
“Cow's milk is poor in iron.”
Noun 3 meanings
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.”
the second-to-last placer in Tycoon
A poor person.
“The poors are at it again.”
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French and Anglo-Norman povre, poure, from Latin pauper, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper.
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POOR at a glance
POOR has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (P 3 + O 1 + O 1 + R 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #818 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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