Synonyms for Poorer | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "poorer" (524 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (105)

beggarly in straitened circumstances inadequate indigent inferior moneyless needy pitiable abject abominable abstemious against amateurish amiss arrant artless ascetic atrocious attenuated austere

Show 65 more words

Adjective(20 words)

Strong matches (157)

dwarfed dwarfish emacerated emaciate emaciated embarrassed empty handed empty-handed execrable exhausted exiguous famished faulty feeble feeling the pinch flagrant flat flat broke flawed flimsy

Show 116 more words

fortuneless foul fourth class fourth-class frugal fruitless fulsome gaudy ghetto-dwellers gimcracky grave gross hack haggard half assed half-assed half-starved hapless hard hard up heel heinous hollow eyed hollow-eyed homely hopeless humble humble-looking humble-visaged humblest ignoble ill ill off ill-equipped ill-fated ill-furnished ill-off ill-provided ill-starred impecunious impecuniousness impoverished impoverishment in narrow circumstances in need in queer street in rags in reduced circumstances in want inadept inapt inattentive inconclusive inconsequential indifferent indigence indignant inefficient inept inexpert infertile infirm infrequent inglorious innocuous insignificant insolvent insubstantial insufficient irregular jejune lame land-poor lean least lenten limited little lousy low low class low down low grade low test low-class low-down low-grade low-quality low-test lowest lowliest lowly luckless lumpen mangy marantic marasmic meager meagre mean measly mediocre meretricious mickey mouse middling miserable miserly misfortunate modest monstrous narrow necessitous neediness nefarious niggardly obnoxious

Adjective(14 words)

empty-handed emptyhanded feeling the pinch flat hard up impecunious impoverished in need indigent inferior insolvent lower-class necessitous needy

Adjective(5 words)

hapless inadequate jejune miserable misfortunate

Verb(1 words)

impoverish

Prep_phrase(1 words)

in short supply

Related words (262)

odious on short commons on the edge opposed opposing ornery out of pocket outcasts pale paltry parsimonious pathetic pauperism pauperized peaked peaky pedestrian penniless penurious penury

Show 206 more words

petty piddling pinched pitiful plain poky poor people poorish poorly off poorness poverty ridden poverty stricken poverty subculture poverty-stricken privation punk puny ragged rank rare reduced remote reptilian resourceless ropy rotten rotten at rubbishy rueful ruined sad scabby scant scanty scarce scattered scrawny screw up scrimp scrimping scrimpy scrubby scruffy scummy scurvy scuzzy second best second class second rate second-best second-class second-rate seedy seldom met with seldom seen shabby shoddy short short of cash short of funds short of money shorthanded shriveled simple skeletal skill less skill-less skimp skimping skimpy sleazy slender slight slim slipshod sloppy slum-dwellers slummy small sordid sorry spare sparing sparse spartan spotty sprinkled squalid squeezed star-crossed starvation starved starveling starving sterile stingy stinted stone broke stone-broke stony straitened strapped stunted subsistence substandard tabetic tabid tacky tatty teachable the disadvantaged the dispossessed the distressed the down-and-out the forgotten man the have-nots the needy the other america the poor the powerless the underprivileged the urban poor thin third class third rate third-class third-rate thoughtless tight tinny trashy trifling trivial trumpery turned off turned-off two-for-a-cent two-for-a-penny twopenny twopenny-halfpenny unacceptable unappreciative unapproving unapt uncomplimentary undeft under par underdeveloped nation underfed undermanned undernourished underprivileged undexterous undextrous undistinguished unfacile unfavorable unfed unfirm unfortunate unfruitful unhappy unimportant unintelligent unlucky unmentionable unmoneyed unnourishing unnutritious unpretentious unproductive unprofessional unproficient unprosperous unproved unprovided unprovided for unreplenished unrigorous unsatisfactory unskillful unsolid unsound unstable unsturdy unsubstantial unsupplied unsustained upper valueless vicious vile want wasted watered watery weak weazeny welfare rolls wiped out withered wizened worthless wraithlike wretched wrong

Adjective(27 words)

Show 7 more words

strapped stuck threadbare tin-pot unwealthy wealthless woeful

Adjective(6 words)

pathetic piteous pitiable pitiful short wretched

Noun(2 words)

poor cod poor people

Verb(1 words)

to make poor

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

1 relation types

form of

1 entries

poor

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

If it were not for great books, our lives would be much the poorer.

Source: tatoeba (30933)

Today's school does no poorer a job than it used to.

Source: tatoeba (242508)

The older we grow, the poorer our memory becomes.

Source: tatoeba (282184)

From year to year they were growing poorer.

Source: tatoeba (282214)

Showing 4 of 10 available sentences.

Poorer