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poor

/poː/ · noun

Meaning

  1. (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
  2. With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
  3. Of low quality.
  4. Used to express pity.
  5. Deficient in a specified way.
  6. Inadequate, insufficient.
  7. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

indigent(English)impoverished(English)skint(English)poverty-stricken(English)destitute(English)deficient(English)moneyless(English)hard up(English)needy(English)visibility(English)sanitation(English)whites(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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