poor
What is the Definition of poor?
Noun:
- people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
Adjective:
- deserving or inciting pity
- having little money or few possessions
- characterized by or indicating poverty
- lacking in quality or substances
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
How can I use poor in a sentence?
There were splashes on the roots of a tree, as though the poor creature had been thrashing around in pain close by.
Poor, blundering Neville — Harry knew what it must have cost him to try and find them in the dark, to warn them.
But I c-c-can not stand it — Lily an' James dead — an' poor little Harry off ter live with Muggles.
You have already seen him, Ginny, and the poor boy is not something you goggle at in a zoo.
The poor toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it — it might be sick.
Other meanings of poor (synonyms, cognates).
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| poor efficiency |
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| poor harvest |
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| poor housing |
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| poor land |
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| poor management |
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| poor performance |
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| poor supply |
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| poorhouse |
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| poorly |
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