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Poor

//pʊɚ//

Synonyms for "poor" (450 found)

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Informal (78)

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(4 words)

flat wrong dirty cheap

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(9 words)

mean base spare gross con lean humble slim lame

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(5 words)

low hard rank plain ill

Adj, adv, intj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

bad

Adj, adv, name, noun, prep, verb, slang(1 words)

short

Intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

hack

Adj, slang(15 words)

weak wretched seedy cheesy stingy lousy measly scabby scummy ropy ornery crappy scuzzy twopenny-halfpenny weazeny

Adj, noun, verb, slang(6 words)

simple punk rare flimsy skimp broke

Adj, adv, verb, slang(1 words)

tight

Adj, adv, det, name, noun, pron, slang(1 words)

little

Adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

sad

Adj, intj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

bum

Name, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

want heel DP

Adj, adv, slang(2 words)

rotten pitiful

Adj, noun, slang(11 words)

shoddy tacky poky miserable slender scrubby skeletal crummy low-down teachable twopenny

Adj, verb, slang(7 words)

shabby wasted ruined starved strapped hard up half-assed

Adj, adv, noun, slang(2 words)

awful middling

Adj, name, noun, slang(3 words)

petty scruffy Mickey Mouse

Verb, slang(1 words)

screw up

Adj, name, slang(1 words)

stony

Adj, adv, det, noun, prep_phrase, pron, slang(1 words)

least

Adj, adv, prep_phrase, slang(1 words)

out of pocket

General use (372)

Adjective(11 words)

short wretched miserable pitiful jejune inadequate pathetic pitiable piteous hapless misfortunate

Adj, noun, verb(16 words)

foul narrow unhappy remote limited abject trifling lumpen bankrupt sparing crumbling cheeseparing scrimp meagre bumbling starving

Adj, name, noun, verb(4 words)

common pale grave slight

Adj, adv, noun, verb(2 words)

thin backward

Adj, noun(47 words)

irregular crude vile inferior barren ascetic gaudy spartan puny unfortunate scurvy pedestrian trivial inadequate upper mediocre spotty trumpery squalid insignificant

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Adj, adv, name, noun, verb(1 words)

small

Adj, adv, noun(3 words)

indifferent defective amiss

Adjective(136 words)

monstrous coarse fulsome atrocious unsound modest flagrant thoughtless homely sordid jejune watery abominable insubstantial inept paltry austere obnoxious unsubstantial faulty

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hopeless worthless sterile odious execrable unfavorable meretricious heinous flawed unlucky contemptible artless scanty frugal nefarious miserly decrepit pathetic fruitless chintzy pitiable inattentive sleazy cadaverous slipshod rueful parsimonious scrawny abstemious unpretentious trashy unintelligent inconclusive inapt needy unimportant unproductive infertile indignant exiguous undistinguished penurious inglorious mangy unskillful hapless unapt lenten peaky innocuous dwarfish unsatisfactory scrimpy valueless amateurish ill-fated undernourished unprosperous gimcracky badly off rubbishy ill-starred unfruitful necessitous impecunious unsustained luckless ill off infrequent ill-equipped penniless unrigorous unprovided uncomplimentary unsolid second-class corpselike unnourishing unnutritious low-grade substandard wraithlike star-crossed second-best poverty-stricken empty-handed fortuneless low-quality unsturdy unappreciative low-class chinchy unsupplied hollow-eyed low grade third-class fourth-class moneyless humblest unproficient unapproving disapprobatory unfacile marantic undexterous lowliest inadept undeft unfirm skill-less unreplenished undextrous unmoneyed land-poor stone-broke poorish

Adj, name(4 words)

sloppy vicious arrant tabid

Adj, verb(53 words)

desolate unstable ragged feeble infirm opposing impoverished disgusting exhausted reduced meager embarrassed scattered attenuated distressed opposed wizened disappointed debased pinched

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Adj, intj, noun, verb(1 words)

sorry

Adj, name, noun(1 words)

haggard

Adj, adv, det, noun, verb(1 words)

scant

Conj, prep(1 words)

against

Adj, adv(5 words)

beggarly lowly niggardly lowest bare-handed

Adj, adv, name(1 words)

scarce

Noun(14 words)

subsistence starvation privation destitution penury impoverishment poorness indigence pauperism fourth class neediness impecuniousness outcasts poor people

Prep_phrase(6 words)

beneath contempt in rags below par on the edge in need under par

Verb(9 words)

dwarfed sprinkled squeezed wiped out bare handed turned off pauperized emacerated feeling the pinch

Adj, det(1 words)

insufficient

Noun, verb(1 words)

scrimping

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Adj, adv, verb(1 words)

shorthanded

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