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"a poor salary" "the jejune diets of the very poor"adjectiveof insufficient quantity to meet a need
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"the urban poor need assistance"nounpeople without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
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"Oh, you poor thing" "his poor distorted limbs"adjectivedeserving or inciting pity
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"the country had a poor economy" "they lived in the poor section of town"adjectivecharacterized by or indicating povertyOpposite:
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"deplored the gap between rich and poor countries" "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"adjectivehaving little money or few possessions
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"a poor land" "the area was poor in timber and coal" "food poor in nutritive value" "the food in the cafeteria was of poor quality"adjectivelacking in quality or substances
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people mean short broke pathetic miserable bust homeless unfortunate wretched pitiful needy pinched penniless inadequate insufficient destitute deficient impoverished skint jejune underprivileged indigent hapless piteous pitiable impecunious slummy misfortunate beggarly penurious poorness moneyless poor people unprovided for poverty-stricken stone-broke stony-broke hard up in straitened circumstances necessitous resourceless