poor
noun
- 50-75% Australian Bureau of Statistics measure of how accurately a statistical region represents the suburb/locality based on the percentage of common population
adjective
- person living in poverty
- living in poverty, lacking wealth; sense is largely financial (and metaphorical extension limited to animate/org arg1s)
- unsatisfactory, rated on the low end, evaluated as having little of some feature or capability
- unfortunate, pitiable
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
- 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.”
- 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.”
- Worthy of pity.
“Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!”
“This poor little puppy got a nasty snake bite.”
- 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.”
- Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
“Blessed are the poor in spirit.”
name
- 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
- A poor person.
“The poors are at it again.”
“...me vint of ane king to huam a poure acsede ane peny...”
- 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
- 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 someone poor.
“Miss Lavinia... put in that she didn't want to be ‘poored by pa,’ or anybody else.”