poor
adjEtymology
Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper. displaced 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 fully arm
- derived from *pavo-pars✻
- derived from pauper
- inherited from povre
Definitions
With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do…
With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.
- England is growne to ſuch a paſſe of late, That rich men triumph to ſee the poore beg at their gate.
- When Owenism and Chartism had burned themselves out, England had become poorer by that substance out of which the Anglo-Saxon ideal of a free society could have been built up for centuries to come.
Of low quality.
- That was a poor performance.
Worthy of pity.
- Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!
- This poor little puppy got a nasty snake bite.
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Deficient in a specified way.
- Cow's milk is poor in iron.
Inadequate, insufficient.
- I received a poor reward for all my hard work.
- That I have wronged no Man, will be a poor plea or apology at the last day.
- The temptation was more than mortal heart could resist. She gave him the promise he sought, stifling the voice of conscience; and as she clung to his neck it seemed to her that heaven was a poor thing compared with a man's love.
Free from self-assertion
Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
- Blessed are the poor in spirit.
The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.
- Then there have not always been proletarians? No. There have always been poor and working classes; and those who worked were almost always the poor. But there have not always been proletarians, just as competition has not always been free.
the second-to-last placer in Tycoon
A poor person.
- The poors are at it again.
- ...me vint of ane king to huam a poure acsede ane peny...
- He had given somewhat to every poore in the Parish.
Synonym of poor cod.
Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.
- It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations.
To become poor.
- The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn.
To call poor.
- Miss Lavinia... put in that she didn't want to be ‘poored by pa,’ or anybody else.
A surname
The neighborhood
Derived
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Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at poor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at poor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at poor
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA