poor

poor
adj.
Poor is used with these nouns: ↑acceleration, ↑access, ↑accommodation, ↑acting, ↑administration, ↑aim, ↑appetite, ↑attendance, ↑background, ↑balance, ↑bloke, ↑catch, ↑chap, ↑choice, ↑circulation, ↑command, ↑communication, ↑community, ↑company, ↑concentration, ↑condition, ↑conductor, ↑coordination, ↑copy, ↑correlation, ↑country, ↑creature, ↑crop, ↑decision, ↑design, ↑diet, ↑digestion, ↑discipline, ↑display, ↑district, ↑education, ↑etiquette, ↑example, ↑excuse, ↑execution, ↑eyesight, ↑facility, ↑family, ↑farmer, ↑fellow, ↑fit, ↑flow, ↑folk, ↑food, ↑fool, ↑form, ↑grade, ↑grammar, ↑grasp, ↑guy, ↑habit, ↑handwriting, ↑harvest, ↑health, ↑hearing, ↑household, ↑housekeeping, ↑housing, ↑hygiene, ↑image, ↑imitation, ↑immigrant, ↑impression, ↑indicator, ↑investment, ↑job, ↑judge, ↑judgement, ↑kid, ↑land, ↑leadership, ↑liaison, ↑liar, ↑light, ↑lighting, ↑loser, ↑luck, ↑maintenance, ↑man, ↑management, ↑mark, ↑market, ↑marketing, ↑memory, ↑minority, ↑morale, ↑motivation, ↑nation, ↑neighbourhood, ↑nutrition, ↑opinion, ↑organization, ↑orphan, ↑outcome, ↑parent, ↑pay, ↑people, ↑performance, ↑performer, ↑person, ↑planning, ↑play, ↑player, ↑posture, ↑preparation, ↑presentation, ↑prospect, ↑quality, ↑rate, ↑rating, ↑reader, ↑reception, ↑record, ↑reflection, ↑reflex, ↑region, ↑relation, ↑relationship, ↑relative, ↑reliability, ↑reputation, ↑resolution, ↑response, ↑result, ↑return, ↑review, ↑reward, ↑risk, ↑road, ↑run, ↑sale, ↑sanitation, ↑schooling, ↑score, ↑season, ↑selection, ↑sense, ↑service, ↑shape, ↑shot, ↑showing, ↑skill, ↑slum, ↑soil, ↑soul, ↑standard, ↑start, ↑state, ↑strategy, ↑substitute, ↑suburb, ↑swimmer, ↑taste, ↑teaching, ↑thing, ↑timing, ↑track record, ↑translation, ↑treatment, ↑turnout, ↑understanding, ↑use, ↑value, ↑ventilation, ↑victim, ↑village, ↑visibility, ↑vision, ↑vocabulary, ↑weather, ↑widow, ↑work, ↑workmanship, ↑year, ↑yield

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  • poor — W1S1 [po: US pur] adj comparative poorer superlative poorest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(no money)¦ 2¦(not good)¦ 3¦(sympathy)¦ 4¦(not good at something)¦ 5¦(health)¦ 6 poor in something 7 a poor second/third etc …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Poor — Poor, a. [Compar. {Poorer} (?; 254); superl. {Poorest}.] [OE. poure or povre, OF. povre, F. pauvre, L. pauper; the first syllable of which is probably akin to paucus few (see {Paucity}, {Few}), and the second to parare to prepare, procure. See… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • poor — [ pur ] adjective *** ▸ 1 lacking money ▸ 2 of low quality ▸ 3 not good enough ▸ 4 not skillful ▸ 5 lacking something important ▸ 6 less than expected ▸ 7 feeling sorry for someone ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) having little money and few possessions: a poor… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • poor — [poor] adj. [ME pore < OFr povre < L pauper, poor < IE base * pōu , small > FEW, FOAL] 1. a) lacking material possessions; having little or no means to support oneself; needy; impoverished b) indicating or characterized by poverty 2.… …   English World dictionary

  • Poor — is an adjective related to a state of poverty, low quality or pity.People with the surname Poor: * Charles Henry Poor, a US Navy officer * Charles Lane Poor, an astronomer * Edward Erie Poor, a vice president of the National Park Bank * Enoch… …   Wikipedia

  • poor — UK US /pɔːr/ US  /pʊr/ adjective ► having little money and/or few possessions: »It s offering to pay off 10 percent of the poor countries debt. »He came from a poor immigrant family. ► not good or operating well, or of a low quality or standard:… …   Financial and business terms

  • poor — ► ADJECTIVE 1) lacking sufficient money to live at a comfortable or normal standard. 2) of a low or inferior standard or quality. 3) (poor in) lacking in. 4) deserving pity or sympathy. ● the poor man s Cf. ↑the poor man s …   English terms dictionary

  • poor — adj 1 Poor, indigent, needy, destitute, penniless, impecunious, poverty stricken, necessitous are comparable when they mean having less money or fewer possessions than are required to support a full life. Poor describes a person, a people, or an… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • poor — (adj.) c.1200, from O.Fr. poure (Fr. pauvre), from L. pauper poor, perhaps a compound of paucus little and parare to get. Replaced O.E. earm. The poor boy sandwich, made of simple but filling ingredients, was invented and named in New Orleans in… …   Etymology dictionary

  • poor — [adj1] lacking sufficient money bad off*, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, behind eight ball*, broke*, destitute, dirt poor*, down andout*, empty handed*, flat*, flat broke*, fortuneless, hard up*, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, in need,… …   New thesaurus

  • Poor — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Enoch Poor (1736–1780), Schiffbauer und Händler aus Exeter, Brigadegeneral der Kontinentalarmee im Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg. Salem Poor (* 1758), afroamerikanischer Soldat, der für seine… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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