Poor definition
Poor is an adjective meaning "deserving or inciting pity." It has 6 meanings, as an adjective and a noun, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- adjective, noun
- Syllables
- 1
- Letters
- 4
- How common
- Everyday word
Poor as an adjective
deserving or inciting pity
"Oh, you poor thing"
Same sense: pathetic, miserable, wretched, pitiful, hapless, pitiable, piteous, misfortunate
having little money or few possessions
"deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"
characterized by or indicating poverty
"the country had a poor economy"
lacking in quality or substances
"a poor land"
of insufficient quantity to meet a need
"a poor salary"
Same sense: short, inadequate, jejune
Poor as a noun
people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
"the urban poor need assistance"
Same sense: poor people
Synonyms and antonyms
- pathetic
- miserable
- wretched
- pitiful
- hapless
- pitiable
- piteous
- misfortunate
- short definition
- inadequate
- jejune
- poor people
Opposite: rich.
How to say poor
Poor has 1 syllable and rhymes with grandeur. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with poor
- grandeur
- amour
- doer
- velour
- raconteur
- tandoor
POOR in word games
- Scrabble
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Anagrams
- 0
Is POOR a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check POOR in the word checker, or unscramble POOR to see the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.