noun
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(with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
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The poor are always with us.
adjective
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With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
example
We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.
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Of low quality.
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That was a poor performance.
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Used to express pity.
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Oh you poor little thing.
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Deficient in a specified way.
example
Cow's milk is poor in iron.
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Inadequate, insufficient.
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I received a poor reward for all my hard work.
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Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
Examples of poor in a Sentence
The poor kid is feeling deserted.
Poor people are often sick.
This was too much for poor Nancy.
A poor example of being objective.
Katie said that was because Carmen had been raised poor and had become frugal.
If she was, she had picked a poor time.
I guess being reclusive is a poor way to make friends.
He was a poor man and had no wish to be rich.
Love your life, poor as it is.
If he was trying to prevent her from escaping, he was doing a poor job of it.
The poor kid can't be that mixed up, can she?
He's not a poor man.
Poor Maria, as good as she is, can't be much help on the phone if she don't speak the language.
The arctic fauna is very poor.
Miserably poor, they subsist for the most part by selling firewood or other products of their jungle; but a few of them have patches of cultivated land, and many earn wages as day labourers to the Hindus.
Poor communication leads to war.
Give the poor woman a break.
He instituted temperance refreshment rooms, a congregational penny savings bank, and held services specially for the poor.
He calls the people to repentance, and he enforces the call by proclaiming the approach of Yahweh in judgment against Lhe sorcerers, the adulterers, the false swearers, the oppressors of the poor, the orphan and the stranger.
They'd figure the poor kid would get all kinds of razing in school and all.
I know you want to discuss your trip to Norfolk and I hated to see the poor young man delayed.
You, madam, for the evening shall be Cynthia, head mistress of a poor, but academically superior school for restless girls.
Poor kid, she's pretty shook.
Carmen had been raised poor by aging and conservative parents who were old time religious.
But this poor average is largely accounted for by the inclusion of the almost uninhabited northern steppe-land; and those parts of Syria, which are settled, show a much higher rate.
The land is poor in minerals, including coal; water-power also is deficient, so that the introduction of European industries is attended with difficulties even apart from the insecurity of affairs, which forbids such experiments as the improvement of agriculture by means of European capital.
The poor child was so tired after his night's work that he could not keep awake.
Great was the caliph's surprise when he heard the poor man's story.
An exception worth noting is that the poor who get better products at cheaper prices will see their wealth rise accordingly.
A poor person with a six-year-old car today has more wealth than a poor person with a six-year-old car did back in 1911, for the simple reason that cars are so much better now.
A poor person with free access to the Internet at the library is wealthier than a poor person with free access to just a library.
In Beverly Hills, your poor neighbor might be one who had to buy the 14K-gold back scratcher instead of the diamond-encrusted platinum one everyone else is buying.
If the poor believe they have less justice than the rich, they buy into the system less. 4.
Because human ability is distributed unevenly and technology multiplies ability of the talented, the spread between the rich and poor will rise more and more.
So the poor will get richer, and the rich will get vastly richer.
In fact, let's say his own mother considered donating the portrait he painted of her to Goodwill but decided not to because "the poor have enough problems already."
The problem is that the poor don't have enough money to afford the food.
Those who argue they should not say there is no way for poor countries to compete with mechanized Western farming and the extremely high yields it produces.
His parents are too poor to pay to have the little fellow sent to school; so, instead of giving me a dog, the gentlemen are going to help make Tommy's life as bright and joyous as mine.
I did not like to trouble them while I was trying to get money for poor little Tommy, for of course it was more important that he should be educated than that my people should have books to read. 4.
But, my poor Catiche, it is as clear as daylight!
And cost what it may, I will arrange poor Amelie's happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so passionately repents.
To Princess Mary it was strange that now, at a moment when such sorrow was filling her soul, there could be rich people and poor, and the rich could refrain from helping the poor.
Poor Mary Bolkonskaya arrived in Moscow yesterday.
Now having come to the army, he informed Kutuzov of the Emperor's displeasure at the poor success of our forces and the slowness of their advance.
The poor old woman may have believed it herself.
Poor Destiny will be left with nothing.
She'd like to think she was saving poor souls every day she spent with him donating her blood, but she couldn't help thinking she really wouldn't care what he did to get blood if she was gone.
But she is a poor nishani.
I know the whole business isn't our concern, but the poor woman is staying with us and God knows she looks as if she can use all the help she can get.