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poor

Pronunciation: /pʊɚ/

The English word “poor” has 13 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
  2. Of low quality.
  3. Worthy of pity.
  4. Deficient in a specified way.
  5. Inadequate, insufficient.
  6. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

noun

  1. The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.
  2. the second-to-last placer in Tycoon
  3. A poor person.
  4. Synonym of poor cod.

verb

  1. Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.
  2. To become poor.
  3. To call someone poor.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French and Anglo-Norman povre, poure, from Latin pauper, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper. Displanced native wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”, from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”, from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)) and almost…

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