Definition of Poor

Noun

• people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
  "the urban poor need assistance"
  - poor people

Adjective

• unsatisfactory
  "a poor light for reading"
  "poor morale"
  "expectations were poor"
  
• not sufficient to meet a need
  "an inadequate income"
  "a poor salary"
  "money is short"
  "on short rations"
  "food is in short supply"
  "short on experience"
  inadequate short
• lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
  "a poor land"
  "the area was poor in timber and coal"
  "food poor in nutritive value"
  
• characterized by or indicating poverty
  "the country had a poor economy"
  "they lived in the poor section of town"
  
• having little money or few possessions
  "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"
  "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"
  
• deserving or inciting pity
  "a hapless victim"
  "miserable victims of war"
  "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy
  "piteous appeals for help"
  "pitiable homeless children"
  "a pitiful fate"
  "Oh, you poor thing"
  "his poor distorted limbs"
  "a wretched life"
  hapless miserable - misfortunate pathetic piteous pitiable pitiful wretched

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Unscramble poor

12 unscramble word found using the letters poor.

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