poor | |
1. adj. With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. | |
We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes. | |
2. adj. Of low quality. | |
That was a poor performance. | |
3. adj. Used to express pity. | |
Oh you poor little thing. | |
4. adj. Deficient in a specified way. | |
Cow's milk is poor in iron. | |
5. adj. Inadequate, insufficient. | |
I received a poor reward for all my hard work. | |
6. adj. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. | |
7. n. (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group. | |
The poor are always with us. | |