adjective. undefined

adjective. Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.

adjective. Relating to or characterized by poverty.

adjective. Deficient or lacking in a specified resource or quality.

adjective. Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior.

adjective. Negative, unfavorable, or disapproving.

adjective. Undernourished; lean. Used especially of animals.

adjective. Humble; meek.

adjective. Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable.

noun. Poor people considered as a group.

noun. In England, a gadoid fish, Gadus minutus.

Possessing little; destitute of wealth: opposed to rich: as, a poor man; a poor community.

Lacking means to procure the comforts of life; indigent; needy; necessitous; specifically, in law, so destitute or impoverished as to be dependent upon charity, or upon the poorrates; pauper.

Deficient in or destitute of desirable or essential qualities; lacking those qualities which render a thing valuable, desirable, suitable, or sufficient for its purpose; inferior; bad: as, poor bread; poor health; cattle in poor condition.

In particular— Of little consequence; trifling; insignificant; paltry: as, a poor excuse.

Mean; shabby: as, a poor outfit; poor surroundings.

Lean; meager; emaciated: as, poor cattle.

Lacking in fertility; barren; exhausted: as, poor land.

Lacking in spirit or vigor; feeble; impotent.

Destitute of merit or worth; barren; jejune: as, a poor discourse; a poor essay.

Unfortunate; to be pitied or regretted: much used colloquially as a vague epithet indicative of sympathy or pity for one who is sick, feeble, or unhappy, or of regret for one who is dead.

Miserable; wretched: used in contempt.

Humble; slight; insignificant: used modestly in speaking of things pertaining to one's self.

To pet in a pitying, compassionate way.

noun. A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.

adjective. Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

adjective. So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.

adjective. Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected.

adjective. Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager

adjective. Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected.

adjective. Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean.

adjective. Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land.

adjective. Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit.

adjective. Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable.

adjective. Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant.

adjective. Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.

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

adjective. a law providing for, or regulating, the relief or support of the poor.

adjective. garlic; -- so called because it was thought to be an antidote to animal poison.

adjective. the red-flowered pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis), which opens its blossoms only in fair weather.

adjective. an assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor.

adjective. the friar bird.

adjective. those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy. In a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by the public.

adjective. With little or no possessions or money.

adjective. Of low quality.

adjective. To be pitied.

adjective. Deficient in a specified way.

adjective. inadequate, insufficient

noun. Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

noun. people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)

"Oh da poor kitteh…(snerk)… hez gettin a automayted baff… (mai eyes are leekin form da laughin)..poor wet kitteh."

adequate  rich  

deficient  guardians of the poor  humble  imperfect  inferior  

bad  beggarly  broke  bust  deficient  

Darfur  Pasteur  doer  grandeur  poore  

American  arm  best  child  country  

DP  Lenten  Mickey Mouse  Spartan  abject  

power cod