poor Definition

poor
adj

1. Not having sufficient money or means to live comfortably.

Thesaurus: wanting, deficient, lacking, needy, penniless, impoverished, broke (slang), destitute, pinched, impecunious, hard up, in reduced circumstances; Antonym: affluent, opulent, rich, wealthy.
2. Poor people in general (see the 4).

Form: the poor
3. Not well supplied with it.

Example: a country poor in minerals
Form: poor in something
4. Not good; weak; unsatisfactory.

Example: poor eyesight
Thesaurus: weak, feeble, infirm, pathetic, pitiful, inferior, faulty, sorry; Antonym: superior.
5. Unsatisfactorily small or sparse.

Example: a poor attendance
6. Used in expressing pity or sympathy

Example: poor fellow!

Derivative: poorness
noun

See also poverty.

Idiom: poor man's ...

derog
A substitute of lower quality or price than the specified thing.
Example: This is only lumpfish, poor man's caviare

Etymology: 13c: from French povre, from Latin pauper poor.