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Poor
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- 1 With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
"We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes."
- 2 Of low quality.
"That was a poor performance."
- 3 Worthy of pity. attributive
"Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!"
- 4 Deficient in a specified way.
"Cow's milk is poor in iron."
- 5 Inadequate, insufficient.
"I received a poor reward for all my hard work."
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- 6 Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit."
- 1 deserving or inciting pity wordnet
- 2 having little money or few possessions wordnet
- 3 lacking in quality or substances wordnet
- 4 characterized by or indicating poverty wordnet
- 5 of insufficient quantity to meet a need wordnet
- 1 A surname
- 1 The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society. plural, plural-only
"...when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might haue bin sold for much, and giuen to the poore. When Iesus vnderstood it, he said vnto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good worke vpon me. For ye haue the poore alwayes with you, but me ye haue not alwayes."
- 2 A poor person. countable
"The poors are at it again."
- 3 people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group) wordnet
- 4 the second-to-last placer in Tycoon plural, plural-only
- 5 Synonym of poor cod. obsolete
- 1 Synonym of impoverish, to make poor. rare, transitive
"It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations."
- 2 To become poor. intransitive, obsolete
"The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn."
- 3 To call poor. obsolete
"Miss Lavinia... put in that she didn't want to be ‘poored by pa,’ or anybody else."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper. Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).
Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper. Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).
Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper. Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).
Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper. Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).
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