| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus | ||
| Main Entry: | poor | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective | |
| Definition: | Having little or no money or wealth. | |
| Synonyms: | beggarly, destitute, down-and-out, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poverty-stricken | |
| Idioms: | hard up, on one's uppers | |
| Synonym Collection v1.1 | ||
| Main Entry: | poor | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective | |
| Synonyms: | abject, angular, bankrupt, bare, barren, base, bony, broke, cheap, cheesy, contemptible, defective, depleted, deprived, despicable, destitute, disadvantaged, distressed, effete infecund, eleemosynary, emaciated, empty, exhausted, faulty, feeble, fruitless, gaunt, haggard, humble, hungry, ill, impecunious, impoverished, inadequate, inarable, inauspicious, indigent, inferior, infertile, insignificant, insolvent, insufficient, lacking, lean, meager, mean, miserable, necessitous, needy, paltry, peaked, penniless, penurious, pinched, pitiful, poverty -stricken, poverty-stricken, rawboned, resourceless, scanty, scrawny, seedy, shabby, shoddy, skinny, sordid, sorry, spare, sparse, squalid, sterile, straitened, strapped, subpar, tacky, thin, underprivileged, undesirable, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, unsatisfactory, worthless, wretched | |
| Synonym Collection v1.1 | ||
| Main Entry: | poor | |
| Part of Speech: | noun | |
| Synonyms: | impecuniosity, impoverishment, indigence, mendicancy, pauperization, poverty | |
| Synonym Collection v1.1 | ||
| Main Entry: | poor | |
| Part of Speech: | verb | |
| Synonyms: | depauperate, impoverish, pauperize | |
| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus | ||
| Main Entry: | bad | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective | |
| Definition: | Below a standard of quality. | |
| Synonyms: | bum, unsatisfactory | |
| Idioms: | below par, scratch | |
| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus | ||
| Main Entry: | meager | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective | |
| Definition: | Conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent. | |
| Synonyms: | exiguous, puny, scant, scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse, stingy, thin | |
| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus | ||
| Main Entry: | pitiful | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective | |
| Definition: | Arousing or deserving pity. | |
| Synonyms: | pathetic, piteous, pitiable, rueful, ruthful | |
| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus | ||
| Main Entry: | shoddy | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective | |
| Definition: | Of decidedly inferior quality. | |
| Synonyms: | base, cheap, lousy, miserable, paltry, rotten, sleazy, trashy | |
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