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poor

noun

  1. 50-75% Australian Bureau of Statistics measure of how accurately a statistical region represents the suburb/locality based on the percentage of common population
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adjective

  1. person living in poverty
  2. living in poverty, lacking wealth; sense is largely financial (and metaphorical extension limited to animate/org arg1s)
  3. unsatisfactory, rated on the low end, evaluated as having little of some feature or capability
  4. unfortunate, pitiable
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /pʊɚ/ / /pʊɹ/ / /pɔɹ/

adj

Etymology: 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

  1. 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.

  2. Of low quality.

    That was a poor performance.

    He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

  3. Worthy of pity.

    Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!

    This poor little puppy got a nasty snake bite.

  4. Deficient in a specified way.

    Cow's milk is poor in iron.

  5. 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.

  6. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

    Blessed are the poor in spirit.

name

  1. A surname

noun

Etymology: 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

  1. A poor person.

    The poors are at it again.

    ...me vint of ane king to huam a poure acsede ane peny...

  2. Synonym of poor cod.

verb

Etymology: 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

  1. 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.

  2. To become poor.

    The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn.

  3. To call someone poor.

    Miss Lavinia... put in that she didn't want to be ‘poored by pa,’ or anybody else.